Cyclopogon truncatus (Lindl.) Schltr. 1920
Plant Photo courtesy of Katia Seagull and Her Orchid Web Site
Common Name or Meaning The Truncate Cyclopogon [refers to the truncate lip]
Flower Size .25" [6.25 mm]
Found in Bolivia and Brazil in wet montane forests on steep embankments at elevations of 1400 to 2000 meters as a small sized, warm to cool growing, terrestrial to low level trunk epiphytic orchid with 5, basal, rosulate, dark green, mottled lighter green, oblanceolate to round, undulate margins, abruptly narrowing below into the reddish, channeled, petiolate base leaves that blooms in the spring on a terminal, stiff, fleshy, spicate, brown, to 10" [25 cm] long, to 20 flowered inflorescence
Synonyms Beadlea truncata (Lindl.) Garay 1980 publ. 1982; Gyrostachys truncata (Lindl.) Kuntze 1891; *Spiranthes truncata Lindl. 1840
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Flora Brasilica Vol XII II Hoehne 1945 drawing okish; Icones Planetarum Tropicarum Series II Orchids of Bolivia plate 0315 Dodson & Vasquez 1989 drawing ggod; Orchids of the High Mountain Atlantic Rainforest in SE Brazil Warren & Miller 1994;
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