Cyclopogon hennisianus (Sandt) Szlach. 1993

SUBGENUS Beadlea [Small] Szlach 1993

Drawing by © Calaway Dodson

Common Name Hennis' Cyclopogon [German Orchid Collector South America 1800's]

Flower Size .08" [2 mm]

Found in Risaralda, Valle de Cauca and Tolima departments of Colombia and Ecuador at elevations around 600 to 940 meters as a medium sized, warm growing terrestrial with 6, in a basal rosette, variegated, elliptic-lanceolate, acute, tapering below into the rather slender, canaliculate petiolate base leaves that blooms in the fall on a terminal, erect, peduncle to 6" [15 cm] long , rachis to 10" [25 cm] long, secund, elongate, cylindric, loosely many flowered inflorescence remotely several sheathed and has linear-lanceolate, long-acuminate. as long as to longer than the ovary floral bracts and carrying rather small, green flowers with a white lip.

"Distinguished by the green leaves with silver green longitudinal stripes, the basal lobe of the lip about equal to the apical lobe in width, the calli of the lip base being intramarginal and the rostellum apex not wrapped around the pollina." Szlachetko & Kolanowska 2019

Synonyms Beadlea hennisiana (Sandt) Garay 1978; *Stenorrhynchos hennisianum Sandt 1928

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;

Repert. Spec. Nov. Regni Veg. 24: 248 Sandt 1928 as Stenorrhynchos hennisianum

Flora of Ecuador No 9 225[1]: 267 Garay 1978 as Beadlea hennisianus;

Icones Plantarum Tropicarum Plate 006 Dodson 1980 as Beadlea hennisiana drawing fide;

* Candollea 48: 435 Szlach 1993;

Native Ecuadorian Orchids Vol 1 Escobar & Dodson 1993 drawing fide;

Native Colombian Orchids Vol 5 COS 1994 drawing fide;

Flora of Ecuador # 76 225 [2] Orchidaceae Dodson/Luer 2005;

Orchids of the Department of Valle de Cauca Colombia Szatchetko & Kolanowska 2012 drawing fide;

Orchids, A Colombian Treasure Vol 1 Ortiz & Uribe 2014 drawing/photo fide;

Materials to the Orchid Flora of Colombia Vol 2: 276 Szlachetko & Kolanowska 2019

Materials to the Orchid Flora of Colombia Vol 2: 277 fig 271 Szlachetko & Kolanowska 2019 drawing fide

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