Cyclopogon elatus (Sw.) Schltr. 1919 Photo courtesy of Eric Hunt

Full shadeHotTo ColdSpring TO EARLYSummer

Common Name The Stately Cyclopogon

Flower Size 1/5" [.5 cm]

Found from Florida, Mexico, Belize, Guatemala, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Bahamas, Cayman, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Haiti, Jamaica, Leewards, Puerto Rico, Trinidad & Tobago, Windwards, Venezuela, Surinam, Peru, Brazil, Paraguay, Uruguay and Argentina in cool wet, scrubby meadows or shaded ravines, forests bordering mangroves or tree filled depressions in lava flows at elevations of sealevel to 4000 meters as a small to large sized, hot to cold growing terrestrial or occasional epiphyte? with rosulate, long-petiolate, elliptic, cunneate, acute leaves with a reddish purple mid-vein that blooms in the spring and early summer on an erect, congested, racemose, 3.4 to 32" [8.5 to 80 cm] inflorescence with lanceolate, as long as the ovary floral bracts and to 20 small, tubular flowers.

Synonyms Beadlea elata (Sw.) Small 1918; Beadlea dutraei (Schltr.) Garay 1982; Beadlea taquaremboensis (Barb. Rodr.) Garay 1982; Cyclopogon densiflorus Schltr. 1921; Cyclopogon dutraei Schltr. 1925; Cyclopogon taquaremboensis (Barb. Rodr.) Schltr. 1920; Gyrostachys haenkeana Kuntze 1891; Gyrostachys minor (Jacq.) Kuntze 1891; Ibidium elatum (Sw.) Salisb. 1812; Neottia elata (Sw.) Sw. 1800; Neottia minor Jacq. 1791; Sarcoglottis elata (Sw.) P.N. Don 1845; *Satyrium elatum Sw. 1788; Sauroglossum richardii Ames 1905; Spiranthes elata (Sw.) Rich. 1817; Spiranthes elata var. foliosa Cogn. 1895; Spiranthes elata var. humilis Rchb.f. 1852; Spiranthes elata var. longipetiolata Cogn. 1895; Spiranthes elata var. minutiflora Cogn. 1895; Spiranthes elata var. ovata Cogn. 1905; Spiranthes elata var. parvifolia Cogn. 1895 ; Spiranthes preslii Lindl. 1840 ; Spiranthes variegata Kraenzl. 1906; Stenorrhynchos taquaremboensis Barb. Rodr.1902

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Symbolae Antillanae Vol VI Orchidaceae Urban 1909 as Spiranthes elata; Flora of Jamaica Fawcett & Rendle 1910 drawing ok; Die Orchideen der Sudamerikanischen Kordillerenstaaten IV Peru Schlechter 1921 as C densiflorus; Flora Brasilica Vol XII II Hoehne 1945 as C dutrae drawing ok; Flora Brasilica Vol XII II Hoehne 1945 drawing ok; Flora Brasilica Vol XII II Hoehne 1945 as C taquaremboensis drawing ok; Native Orchids of Trinidad Schultes 1960 as Spiranthes elatus; AOS Bulletin Vol 31 No 8 1962 photo as Spiranthes elata; Flora de Venezuela Foldats Volumen XV Part 1 1969 as Spiranthes elata; Flora of the Lesser Antilles Garay & Sweet 1974 as Spiranthes elata drawing fide; Las Orquedias De El Salvador Vol 2 Hamer 1974 as Spiranthes elata drawing/photo fide; Las Orquedias de El Salvador Vol 3 Hamer 1981 drawing fide/ photo hmm; Flora Novo-Galaciana Vol 16 Orchidaceae Mc Vaugh 1985 as Spiranthes elata; Icones Planetarum Tropicarum Plate 1201 Hamer & Dodson 1982 as Beadlea elata drawing ok; An Orchid Flora Of Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands Ackerman 1995 drawing ok; ; Icones Orchidacearum Peruviarum Plate 429 Bennett & Christenson 1998 drawing fide; Orchidaceae Antillanae Nir 2000; Flora of the Venezuelan Guayana Vol 7 Steyermark, Berry, Yatskievych and Holst 2003; Vanishing Beauty; Native Costa Rican Orchids Vol 1 Pupulin 2005; 100 Orquideas Argentinas Freuler 2005 photo fide; The Orchids of Cuba Llamacho & Larramendi 2005; Orquideas Da Chapada Diamantina Brito & Cribb 2005; Orchid Species of Peru Zelenko Bermudez 2009 photo fide

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