Cyclopogon iguapensis Schltr.1922 Photo courtesy of © Dalton Holland Baptista © and Orchidstudium

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Common Name The Iguape Cyclopogon [A city in coastal Sao Paulo Brazil]

Flower Size .25" [6.2 mm]

Found in southeastern & southern Brazil in deep shade in primitive forests often in gullies and sunless narrow valleys at elevations around 1000 to 1400 meters as a medium sized, cool growing terrestrial orchid with 5 to 6, sequential, dark green, oblanceolate, acute, deeply keeled, gradually narrowing below into the petiolate base leaves that blooms in mid winter on a terminal, erect, to 28" [to 70 cm] long, 25 to 30 flowered, racmose inflorescence holding the flowers in an apical cone.

Synonyms Beadlea iguapensis (Schltr.) Garay 1980 publ. 1982

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Flora Brasilica Vol XII II Hoehne 1945 drawing fide; Orchids of the High Mountain Atlantic Rainforest in SE Brazil Warren & Miller 1994;

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