Cyclopogon epiphyticus (Dodson) Dodson 1989
SUBGENUS Beadlea [Small] Szlach 1993
Photo by A Müller
Photo by © Eric Hunt, plant grown by Orquides del Valle, Cali, Colombia.
Photo by © Leon Glicenstein
TYPE Drawing by © Calaway Dodson
EARLIER
Common Name The Epiphytic Cyclopogon [refers to it’s occuring on trees]
Flower Size .08" [2 mm]
Found from Colombia and Pinchincha, Los Rios and Canar provinces of Ecuador in lower cloud forests at elevations of 100 to 800 meters as a small sized, hot to warm growing epiphyte with fasiculate, thick, fleshy, long-pubescent roots and a basal rosette of 4, ovate to elliptic, acute, coppery-green with white spots that taper basally into a slender petiole that blooms in the spring summer and earlier fall on an erect, terminal, peduncle to 10" [25 cm] long, glabrous, provided with 3 to 4 adpressed, acuminate, decreasing in size upwards sheathing bracts, rachis 3" [7.5 cm] long, loosely several flowered, racemose inflorescence with lanceolate, subulate, longer than the ovary floral bracts .
Often confused with C cranichoides but differs in it’s exclusive epiphytic habit, its coppery green leaves with white spots and having concave side lobes at the midpoint giving it a pandurate-sinuate aspect when spread instead of a rectangular mid-side lobe. Also C epiphyticum and C cranchioides occur in the same location but are separated by elevation, C epiphyticum occurs below 1000 meters and B cranichioides occurs above 1000 meters to 1800 meters.
"Closely related to C gracilis but it C epiphticus has a broadly cuneate lip base and auricles ornamented with small, falcate calli. C gracilis has a lip base that is saggitate and the auricles are adorned with prominent calli." Szlachetko & Kolanowska 2019
Synonyms *Beadlea epiphytica Dodson 1980
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
Icones Planetarum Tropicarum Plate 004 Dodson 1980 as Beadlea epiphytica drawing fide;
Orchids from The Coast Of Ecuador Arosemana, Jurado, Estrada and Konanz 1988 photo ok;
*Orquideologia 19: 92 Dodson 1993
Native Ecuadorian Orchids Vol 1 Dodson 1993 drawing fide;
Flora Of Ecuador # 76 225[2] Dodson & Luer 2005;
AOS Bulletin Vol 78 No 5 2009 photo fide;
Mille et Une Mini Orchideees Roguenant 2009 photo ok plant only
AOS Bulletin Vol 79 #7 2010 photo fide;
Orchids, A Colombian Treasure Vol 1 Ortiz & Uribe 2014 drawing ok/photo fide
Materials to the Orchid Flora of Colombia: 272 Szlachetko & Kolanowska 2019 drawing fide
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