Cyclopogon bicolor (Ker Gawl.) Schltr. 1919

Plant in Situ Brazil Photos by © by Rafael Bortoloti, and his Orquidario San Rafael Flickr Orchid Photo Website

Drawing Drawing by © by Friedrich Reinhardt-Verlag, Basel, Switzerland and the Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbarium

Common Name or Meaning The Two-Colored Cyclopogon

Flower Size

Found in Puerto Rico, Trinidad & Tobago, Brazil, Argentina, Uruguay and Paraguay as a small sized, terrestrial orchid with several, erect, elliptic, obtuse to acute gradually anrrowing below into the elongate, petiolate base leaves that blooms on a terminal, erect, 12" [30 cm] long, several to many flowered inflorescence with lanceolate, acute, spaced bracts and longer than the ovary floral bracts

Synonyms Beadlea bicolor (Ker Gawl.) Garay 1980 publ. 1982; Gyrostachys bicolor (Ker Gawl.) Kuntze 1891; Lyroglossa pubescens (Barb.Rodr.) Schltr. 1920; *Neottia bicolor Ker Gawl. 1824; Spiranthes bicolor (Ker Gawl.) Lindl. 1824; Spiranthes pubescens Barb.Rodr. 1877

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Flora Brasilica Vol XII II Hoehne 1945 drawing ok;

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