Cyclopogon longibracteatus (Barb. Rodr.) Schltr. 1920 Photo courtesy of Dalton Holland Baptista.

Plant and FlowersPhotos by Takato NATSU from Japan and his Japan Orchids Page

Common Name The Long-Bracted Cyclopogon

Flower Size 1/2" [1.25 cm]

Found in Brazil and Paraguay as a small to medium sized terrestrial with narrowly elliptic, acute, gradually narrowing below into the channeled petiolate base leaves that blooms in the spring in nature on a terminal, erect, 7" [17.5 cm] long, sensely several flowereed inflorescence enveloped almost completely by imbricate, lanceolate, acute bracts and with longer than the flower floral bracts

Synonyms Beadlea longibracteata (Barb. Rodr.) Garay 1982; Cyclopogon trilineatus Barb.Rodr. 1881; *Spiranthes longibracteata Barb. Rodr. 1877; Spiranthes rodriguesii Cogn. 1895

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

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