Cyclopogon hirtzii Dodson 1993
SUBGENUS Beadlea [Small] Szlach 1993
Photo by © Alexander Hirtz
TYPE Drawing by © Dodson and The Epidendra Website
LATE 
Common Name Hirtz's Cyclopogon [Ecuadorian Original Collector of species current]
Flower Size .16" [4 mm]
Found in Morona-Santiago province of Ecuador at elevations around 1300 meters as a medium sized, cool growing terrestrial with a basal rosette of green with light green spots, elliptic, acute, basally rounded into the petiolate base, usually withered at blooming leaves that blooms in the late fall and winter on a terminal, erect, peduncle to 10" [25 cm] long, enveloped by 3 to 4, appressed, acuminate, decreasing in size upwards sheaths, rachis to 6" [15 cm] long, loosely many flowered inflorescence with ovate-lanceolate, as long as the ovary floral bracts.
"This species is similar to Cyclopogon gracilis , but the plant is much more robust, the flowers are more than twice as large, the lip has an oblong-elliptic isthmus, and the column is glabrous on the underside." Dodson 1993
Synonyms
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
*Orquideología 19(1): 94. Dodson 1993 drawing fide;
Native Ecuadorian Orchids Vol 1 Escobar & Dodson 1993 Photo fide;
Flora of Ecuador # 76 225 [2] Orchidaceae Dodson/Luer 2005 drawing fide;
Materials to the Orchid Flora of Colombia Vol 2: 258 Szlachetko & Kolanowska 2019
Materials to the Orchid Flora of Colombia Vol 2: 259 fig 248 Szlachetko & Kolanowska 2019 drawing fide
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