Cyclopogon cranichoides (Griseb.) Schltr. 1921
SUBGENUS Beadlea [Small] Szlach 1993
Photos by © Ricardo Valentin de lLa Rosa
Photo by © Carl Luer
Drawing by © Blanche Ames
Common Name The Cranichis-Like Cyclopogon
Flower Size .2" [5 mm]
Found in Florida, Belize, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, Bahamas, Cuba, Haiti, Dominican Republic, Puerto Rico, Leewards, Jamaica, Cayman Islands, Windwards, Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador and Peru in lower montane forests at elevations around 100 to 100 meters as a small to medium sized, hot to warm growing terrestrial with a tuber giving rise to several, erect-patent, ovate, acute, basally round and petiolate base leaves that blooms in the spring on an erect, 1 to 3.2" [2.5 to 8 cm] long, laxly several flowered inflorescence with lanceolate, long-acuminate, basally glabrous and puberulous bracts.
Distinguished by the densely many flowered inflorescence, the elliptic to ovate, green, basally rounded leaves, the obtuse, 3 lobed lip and the lip margins that are not thickened.
Synonyms Beadlea cranichoides (Griseb.) Small 1913; Beadlea cranichoides f. alba P.M.Br. & C.L.McCartney 1995; Beadlea cranichoides f. albolabia P.M.Br. & C.L.McCartney 1995; Beadlea storeri (Chapm.) Small 1903; Cyclopogon cranichoides f. albolabia (P.M.Br. & C.L.McCartney) P.M.Br.1998; Cyclopogon nigricans (Schltr.) Schltr. 1920; Cyclopogon storeri (Chapm.) Szlach., Mytnik & Rutk 2003; *Pelexia cranichoides Griseb 1866; Sauroglossum cranichoides (Griseb.) Ames 1904; Sauroglossum nigricans Schltr. 1918; Spiranthes cranichoides (Griseb.) Cogn. 1909; Spiranthes storeri Chapm.1892
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
Cat. Pl. Cub.: 269 Griseb. 1866 as Pelexia cranichoides
Fl. South. U.S., ed. 2, Suppl. 2: 696 Chapm. 1892 as Spiranthes storeri
Fl. S.E. U.S.: 319 Small 1903 as Beadlea storeri
Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington 17: 117 Ames 1904 as Sauroglossum cranicoides
Studies in the Family Orchidaceae Vol 1 Ames 1905 as Sauroglossum cranicoides
Studies in the Family Orchidaceae Vol 1: Plate 12 Ames 1905 as Sauroglossum cranicoides drawing fide;
Symbolae Antillanae Vol VI Orchidaceae: 338 Urban 1909 as Spiranthes cranichoides;
Fl. S.E. U.S., ed. 2: 320 Small 1913 as Beadlea cranichoides
Beih. Bot. Centralbl. 36(2): 379 Schlechter 1918 as Sauroglossum nigricans
* Beih. Bot. Centralbl. 37(2): 387 Schlechter 1920
Beih. Bot. Centralbl. 37(2): 391 Schlechter 1920 as Cyclopogon nigricans
Repert. Spec. Nov. Regni Veg. Beih. 8: 45 Ecuador Schlechter 1921;
Repert. Spec. Nov. Regni Veg. Beih. 47: 77 1929 drawing not nom illeg = Cyclopogon peruvianus;
Flora Brasilica Vol XII II 13-43: 180 Hoehne 1945;
Flora Brasilica Vol XII II 13-43: 181 Hoehne 1945 as C nigricans;
Flora de Venezuela Foldats Volumen XV Part 1 1969 as Spiranthes cranichcoides drawing hmm;
Orchids of Peru 1st supplement: 6 Schweinfurth 1970 as Spiranthes cranichoides;
The Native Orchids of Florida: 111 Luer 1972 as Spirathes cranichoides drawing/photos fide;
Flora of the Lesser Antilles: 71 Garay & Sweet 1974 as Spiranthes cranichoides
Flora of the Lesser Antilles: 72 Garay & Sweet 1974 as Spiranthes cranichoides drawing fide;
Flora of Ecuador No 9 225[1] Garay 1978 as Beadlea cranichoides drawing fide;
Icones Planetarum Tropicarum Plate 362 Dodson 1980 as Beadlea cranichoides drawing ok;
Icones Planetarum Tropicarum Plate 611 Hamer & Dodson 1982 as Beadlea cranichoides drawing ok;
Orchids of Guatemala and Belize: 106 Ames & Correll 1985 as Spiranthes cranicoides
Orchids of Guatemala and Belize: 107 Ames & Correll 1985 as Spiranthes cranicoides drawing good;
Selbyana Vol 10 Orchids of Central America: 26 Hamer 1988 as Beadlea cranicoides drawing ok;
Native Ecuadorian Orchids Vol 1 Dodson 1993 drawing ok;
Field Guide to the Orchids of Costa Rica and Panama Dressler 1993;
N. Amer. Native Orchid J. 1: 8 P.M.Br. & C.L.McCartney 1995 as Beadlea cranichoides f. alba
N. Amer. Native Orchid J. 1: 8 P.M.Br. & C.L.McCartney 1995 as Beadlea cranichoides f. albolabia
An Orchid Flora Of Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands Ackerman 1995 drawing fide;
N. Amer. Native Orchid J. 4(1): 51 P.M.Br. & C.L.McCartney 1998 as Cyclopogon cranichoides f. albolabia without basionym date.
Orchidaceae Antillane Nir 2000;
Rudolf Schlechter Die Orchideen Band 1C lieferung 41 pg 2565 - 2625 Brieger 2001 as Beadlea cranichoides drawing fide;
Harvard Pap. Bot. 5 #2: Carnevali etal 2001;
Flora of the Venezuelan Guayana Vol 7 Steyermark, Berry, Yatskievych and Holst 2003 drawing ok;
Genus, Suppl.: 58 Szlach., Mytnik & Rutk. 2003 as Cyclopogon storeri
Flora Of Ecuador # 76 225[2] Dodson & Luer 2005;
Flora of the Greater Antilles Ackerman 2014;
Orchids, A Colombian Treasure Vol 1 Ortiz & Uribe 2014 drawing fide/photo not;
Orchid Genera and Species in Guatemala Archila, Szlachchetko, Chiron, Lipinska, Mystkowska and Bertolini 2018;
Orchid Genera and Species in Guatemala Archila, Szlachchetko, Chiron, Lipinska, Mystkowska and Bertolini 2018 as C storeri
Materials to the Orchid Flora of Colombia: 264 Szlachetko & Kolanowska 2019
Materials to the Orchid Flora of Colombia: 265 Szlachetko & Kolanowska 2019 drawing fide
Flora Mesoamerica Vol 7 Parte 2 Orchidaceae MBG UNAM 2023
Flora Mesoamerica Vol 7 Parte 2 Orchidaceae MBG UNAM 2023 as C storeri
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