Cyclopogon condoranus Dodson 1994

SUBGENUS Beadlea [Small] Szlach 1993

TYPE Drawing by © Dodson and The Epidendra Website

Common Name The Condor Cyclopogon [refers to the Cordillera del Condor, Morona-Santiago province of Ecuador where this species occurs]

Flower Size .16" [4 mm]

Found in Morona-Santiago province of Ecuador at elevations around 1200 meters as a medium sized, cool growing terrestrial with a basal whorl of 3, ovate, acuminate, cuneate to basally rounded below into the elongate, canaliculate, stem clasping leaves that blooms in the winter on a terminal, erect, peduncle to 16" [40 cm] long, provided with 3 to 4, adpressed to the stem, acuminate, decreasing in size upwards, distant sheathing bracts, rachis to 6" [15 cm] long, 2 ranked, loosely 13 or so flowered inflorescence with lanceolate-subulate, longer than the ovary floral bracts and carryingf small flowers with dark brown sepals and the lip and petals white.

Similar to Cyclopogon gracilis but it has a dorsal sepal that is elliptical and acute, the base of the lip has a claw that is longer than wide and the distance across the basal lobes of the lip is narrower than the apical lobe.

It differs form all other Cyclopogon by the lip that is apically flared with a transversely reniform apical lobe, the base of the lip is clawed, the lateral lobes are sagittate, it has large horn-like calli extending from the margin of the lateral lobes of the lip, the column is densely pubescent beneath and the leaves are green.

Synonyms

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;

*Orquideología Vol 19 #2 pg 123-130 Dodson 1994 drawing fide;

Flora Of Ecuador # 76 225[2] Dodson & Luer 2005

Materials to the Orchid Flora of Colombia: 270 Szlachetko & Kolanowska 2019

Materials to the Orchid Flora of Colombia: 271 Szlachetko & Kolanowska 2019 drawing fide

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