Cyclopogon comosus (Rchb.f.) Burns-Bal. & E.W.Greenw. 1986
SUBGENUS Beadlea [Small] Szlach 1993
Photo by © Canek Ledesma, Osbel López y Mariano Gorostiza
Photo by © Alfredo Cascante-Marín and The Lankesteriana Website
Photo by © Fritz Hamer
Drawing by © Hagsater & Salazar
Drawing of Beadlea comosa by © Fritz Hamer
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Common Name The Hirsute Cyclopogon
Flower Size .2" [5 mm]
Found in Mexico, Guatemala, Belize, Honduras, El Salvador, Nicaragua and Costa Rica in montane rain forests on wet shady slopes and cliffs in organic soils at elevations around 750 to 1800 meters as a miniature sized, warm to cool growing terrestrial with basal, in a rosette, dark green silvery striped, acute, gradually narrowing below into a short petiolate base leaves that blooms in the late winter and early spring on an erect, terminal, 6.8" [17 cm] long, provided with 4 to 5, small towards the apex, clear purple, acuminate sheathing bracts, apically villose, laxly to 10 flowered inflorescence with lanceolate, slightly concave, acuminate, glabrous, green, red veined, longer than the ovary floral bracts and carrying resupinate flowers
"Distinguished by the shortly-petiolate base leaves, the leaf blade usually dark green with 2 silvery stripes or sometimews irregularily spotted with silvery white, the short and dense one sided rachis, and the proportionally larger flowers with the tepals greenish-brown and the lip white with 3 longitudinal lines." Salazar 1990
Synonyms Beadlea comosa (Rchb.f.) Hamer & Garay 1981; Gyrostachys comosa (Rchb.f.) Kuntze 1891; *Spiranthes comosa Rchb.f. 1845;
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
Linnaea 18: 408 Rchb.f 1845 as Spiranthes comosa
Revis. Gen. Pl. 2: 664 Kuntze 1891 as Gyrostachys comosa
Las Orquideas de el Salvador Vol 3: 48 Hamer 1981 as Beadlea comosa drawing fide;
* Orquidea (Mexico City), n.s., 10: 92 Burns-Bal. & E.W.Greenw 1986
Selbyana Vol 10 Orchids of Central America: 25 Hamer 1988 as Beadlea comosus drawing fide;
Icones Orchidacearum 1 Plate 10 Hagsater & Salazar 1990 drawing fide;
Genera Orchidacearum Vol 3 Orchidoideae Part 2 Pridgeon, Cribb, Chase and Rasmusen 2003 drawing/photo fide;
Manual de Plantas de Costa Rica Hammel, Grayum, Herrera, and Zamora 2005;
Vanishing Beauty, Native Costa Rican Orchids Vol 1 Pupulin 2005 photo ok;
Orchids from the Serrania Del Baudo Choco Colombia Misas 2005 drawing/photo not = ?;
Guia de Orquideas de Chiapas Carlos Rommel Beutelspacher Baigts 2013 photo fide;
Orchid Genera and Species in Guatemala Archila, Szlachchetko, Chiron, Lipinska, Mystkowska and Bertolini 2018;
Lankesteriana 19(1) 38/47 2019 photo fide;
Materials to the Orchid Flora of Colombia: 262 Szlachetko & Kolanowska 2019 drawing fide
Flora Mesoamerica Vol 7 Parte 2 Orchidaceae MBG UNAM 2023
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