Cyclopogon inaequilaterus (Poepp. & Endl.) Schltr. 1920
SUBGENUS Stigmatosema
Photos by © Rudy Gelis and The I Naturalist Website
Drawing by © Calaway Dodson
Common Name The Unequal Cyclopogon
Flower Size .2" [5 mm]
Found in Costa Rica, Venezuela, Cotopaxi province of Ecuador and Huanuco department of Peru at elevations around 800 to 1000 meters as a medium sized, warm growing terrestrial with 1 to 3, basal, variegated, elliptic to obliquely elliptic, acute to obtuse, basally rounded into the channeled, petiolate base leaves that blooms in the winter and spring on an erect, terminal, slender, puberulent, peduncle to 16" [40 cm], provided with several remote sheaths, rachis to 8" [20 cm] long, loosely many flowered inflorescence with linear-lanceolate, acuminate twice as long as the ovary floral bracts.
Distinguished by the basal lobe of the lip being about equal to the width of the upper lobe, the calli at the base of the lip marginal, and the apex of the rostellum wrapped around the pollina.
Synonyms Beadlea inaequilatera (Poepp. & Endl.) Garay 1978; Cyclopogon moyobambae Schltr. 1921; Gyrostachys inaequilatera (Poepp. & Endl.) Kuntze 1891; *Spiranthes inaequilatera Poepp. & Endl. 1836; Stigmatosema inaequilatera (Poepp. & Endl.) Szlach. 1995
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
Nov. Gen. Sp. Pl. 2: 7 Poepp. & Endl. 1836 as Spiranthes inaequilatera
Revis. Gen. Pl. 2: 664 Kuntze 1891 as Gyrostachys inaequilatera
* Beih. Bot. Centralbl. 37(2): 389 Schlechter 1920
Repert. Spec. Nov. Regni Veg. Beih. 9: 60 Schelchter 1921 as C moyobambe
Repert. Spec. Nov. Regni Veg. Beih. 47: 108 fig 423 1929 as C moyobambe drawing fide;
Flora Brasilica Vol XII II 13-43: 208 Hoehne 1945;
Flora Brasilica Vol XII II 13-43: 181 Orchidaceae Hoehne 1945 as C moyobambae;
Orchids of Peru Vol 1: 139 Schweinfurth 1958 as Spiranthes inequalilatera;
Flora of Ecuador No 9 225[1]: 267 Garay 1978 as Beadlea inequalilatera drawing fide;
Icones Plantarum Tropicarum Plate 403 Dodson 1980 drawing fide;
Native Ecuadorian Orchids Vol 1 Escobar & Dodson 1993 drawing fide;
Lindleyana 10: 7 Szlach 1995 as Stigmatosema inaequilatera
Flora of Ecuador # 76 225 [2] Orchidaceae Dodson/Luer 2005
Materials to the Orchid Flora of Colombia: 281 Szlachetko & Kolanowska 2019 as Stigmatosema inaequalilatera
Materials to the Orchid Flora of Colombia: 282 fig 276 Szlachetko & Kolanowska 2019 as Stigmatosema inaequalilatera
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
