Cyclopogon elatus (Sw.) Schltr. 1919
SUBGENUS Beadlea [Small] Szlach 1993
Photos by © Logan Crees and The I Naturalist Website
Photos by © Luis Felipe Varela
Photo by © Eric Hunt
Drawing by © Fritz Hamer
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Common Name The Stately Cyclopogon
Flower Size 1/5" [.5 cm]
Found from Florida, Mexico, Belize, Guatemala, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Bahamas, Cayman, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Haiti, Jamaica, Leewards, Puerto Rico, Trinidad & Tobago, Windwards, Venezuela, Surinam, Peru, Brazil, Paraguay, Uruguay and Argentina in cool wet, scrubby meadows or shaded ravines, forests bordering mangroves or tree filled depressions in lava flows at elevations of sealevel to 2000 meters as a small to large sized, hot to cool growing terrestrial or occasional epiphyte? with rosulate, long-petiolate, elliptic, cuneate, acute leaves with a reddish purple mid-vein that blooms in the spring and early summer on an erect, congested, racemose, 3.4 to 32" [8.5 to 80 cm] long, racemose inflorescence with lanceolate, as long as the ovary floral bracts and to 20 small, tubular, green to brown flowers with a white lip.
Synonyms Beadlea elata (Sw.) Small 1918; Gyrostachys haenkeana Kuntze 1891; Gyrostachys minor (Jacq.) Kuntze 1891; Ibidium elatum (Sw.) Salisb. 1812; Neottia elata (Sw.) Sw. 1800; Neottia minor Jacq. 1791; Sarcoglottis elata (Sw.) P.N. Don 1845; *Satyrium elatum Sw. 1788; Sauroglossum richardii Ames 1905; Spiranthes elata (Sw.) Rich. 1817; Spiranthes elata var. foliosa Cogn. 1895; Spiranthes elata var. humilis Rchb.f. 1852; Spiranthes elata var. longipetiolata Cogn. 1895; Spiranthes elata var. minutiflora Cogn. 1895; Spiranthes elata var. ovata Cogn. 1905; Spiranthes elata var. parvifolia Cogn. 1895; Spiranthes variegata Kraenzl. 1906;
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
Prodr. Veg. Ind. Occ.: 119 Sw. 1788 as Satyrium elatum
Collectanea 3: 172 Jacq. 1791 as Neottia minor
Neues J. Bot. 1(1): 51 Sw. 1805 as Neottia elata
Trans. Hort. Soc. London 1: 291 Salisb. 1812 as Ibidium elatum
De Orchid. Eur.: 37 Rich 1817 as Spiranthes elata
Linnaea 25: 235 Rchb.f 1852 as Spiranthes elata var. cearensis
Fl. Bras. 3(4): Tab Cogniaux 1895 as Spiranthes elata var. cearensis drawing fide;
Linnaea 25: 235 Rchb.f 1852 as Spiranthes elata var. humilis
Revis. Gen. Pl. 2: 663 Kuntze 1891 as Gyrostachys haenkeana
Revis. Gen. Pl. 2: 663 Kuntze 1891 as Gyrostachys minor
Fl. Bras. 3(4): 191 Cogniaux 1895 as Spiranthes elata
Fl. Bras. 3(4): 192 Cogniaux 1895 as Spiranthes elata var. cearensis
Fl. Bras. 3(4):tab 43 fig 1 Cogniaux 1895 as Spiranthes elata var. cearensis drawing fide
Fl. Bras. 3(4): 192 Cogniaux 1895 as Spiranthes elata var. foliosa
Fl. Bras. 3(4): 192 Cogniaux 1895 as Spiranthes elata var. humilis
Fl. Bras. 3(4): 192 Cogniaux 1895 as Spiranthes elata var. longipetiolata
Fl. Bras. 3(4): 192 Cogniaux 1895 as Spiranthes elata var. minutiflora
Fl. Bras. 3(4): 192 Cogniaux 1895 as Spiranthes elata var. ovata
Fl. Bras. 3(4): 192 Cogniaux 1895 as Spiranthes elata var. parvifolia
Orchidaceae 1: 44 Ames 1905 as Sauroglossum richardii
Bot. Jahrb. Syst. 37: 392 Kraenzlin 1906 as Spiranthes variegata nom. illeg.
Symbolae Antillanae Vol VI Orchidaceae: 336 Urban 1909 as Spiranthes elata;
Flora of Jamaica: 26 Fawcett & Rendle 1910
Flora of Jamaica: Plate 3 Fig 10-14 Fawcett & Rendle 1910 drawing ok;
Die Orchideen: 113 Schlechter 1915 as Spiranthes elata;
Brooklyn Bot. Gard. Mem. 1: 38 Small ex Britton i 1918 as Beadlea elata
* Repert. Spec. Nov. Regni Veg. Beih. 6: 53 Schlechter 1919
Repert. Spec. Nov. Regni Veg. Beih. 7: 216 Schlechter 1920;
Repert. Spec. Nov. Regni Veg. Beih. 35: 31 1925;
Flore Descriptive des Antilles Francaises H. Stehle 1939 as Spiranthes elata;
Flora Brasilica Vol XII II 13-43: 205 Hoehne 1945
Flora Brasilica Vol XII II 13-43: Tab 103 Hoehne 1945 drawing ok;
Orchids of Peru Vol 1: 134 Schweinfurth 1958 as Spiranthes elata
Orchids of Peru Vol 1: 161 Schweinfurth 1958 as Spiranthes elata drawing fide;
Native Orchids of Trinidad Schultes 1960 as Spiranthes elatus;
AOS Bulletin Vol 31 No 8 1962 as Spiranthes elata photo good;
Flora de Venezuela Foldats Volumen XV Part 1 1969 as Spiranthes elata drawing good;
The Native Orchids of Florida: 112-3 Luer 1972 as Spiranthes elata drawing/photos fide;
Flora of the Lesser Antilles Garay & Sweet 1974 as Spiranthes elata
Flora of the Lesser Antilles: 73 Garay & Sweet 1974 as Spiranthes elata drawing fide;
Las Orquedias De El Salvador Vol 2 Hamer 1974 as Spiranthes elata drawing/photo fide;
Orchidaceae Brasilenses Band 1 Pabst & Dungs 1975 drawing fide;
Die Orchideen 3 Auflage Bd 1 Sonderabdruck aus Schlechter Lieferung 6 321 - 384 Brieger, Maatsch and Senghas 1975;
Las Orquedias de El Salvador Vol 3 Hamer 1981 drawing fide/ photo hmm;
Flora Novo-Galaciana Vol 16 Orchidaceae Mc Vaugh 1985 as Spiranthes elata drawing fide;
Icones Planetarum Tropicarum Plate 1201 Hamer & Dodson 1982 as Beadlea elata drawing ok;
Field Orchids of Guatemala and Belize: 108 Ames & Correll 1985 as Spiranthes elata
Field Orchids of Guatemala and Belize: 109 Ames & Correll 1985 as Spiranthes elata drawing good;
Orquideologia Vol 17 No 3 1988 as Sarcoglottis elata photo plant only fide;
Selbyana Vol 10 Orchids of Central America: 27 Hamer 1988 as Beadlea elata drawing ok; The Manual of Cultivated Orchids Bechtel, Cribb, Launert 1992 drawing fide;
Field Guide to the Orchids of Costa Rica and Panama Dressler 1993;
An Orchid Flora Of Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands Ackerman 1995 drawing good;
Icones Orchidacearum Peruviarum Plate 429 Bennett & Christenson 1998 drawing fide;
Orchidaceae Antillanae Nir 2000;
Flora of the Venezuelan Guayana Vol 7 Steyermark, Berry, Yatskievych and Holst 2003;
Genera Orchidacearum Vol 3 Orchidoideae Part 2 Pridgeon, Cribb, Chase and Rasmusen 2003 photo fide;
Vanishing Beauty, Native Costa Rican Orchids Vol 1 Pupulin 2005 photo ok;
100 Orquideas Argentinas Freuler 2005 photo fide;
The Orchids of Cuba Llamacho & Larramendi 2005 photo hmm;
Orquideas Da Chapada Diamantina Brito & Cribb 2005 drawing good;
Manual de Plantas de Costa Rica Hammell, Grayum, Herrera and Zamora 2005;
Orchids of Mexico Hagsater, Soto, Salazar, Jimenez, Lopez and Dressler 2005;
Orchid Species of Peru Zelenko Bermudez 2009 photo hmm;
Mille et Une Mini Orchideees Roguenant 2009 plant only photo fide;
AOS Bulletin Vol 79 #7 2010 photo fide;
AOS Bulletin Vol 81 #1 2012 photo fide;
Orchids of the Department of Valle de Cauca Colombia Szatchetko & Kolanowska 2012 drawing/photo fide;
Flora of the Greater Antilles Ackerman 2014 drawing good;
Orquideas del Valle de Aburra Medillin Colombia COS 2014 photo fide;
Orchidees du Bresil As Orquideas da Serra do Castelo Espirito Santo Brasil Vol 1 Chiron & Bolsanello 2015 drawing good/photo ok;
AOS Bulletin Vol 86 #3 2016 as Neottia minor drawing fide;
AOS Bulletin Vol 85 #6 photo fide;
AOS Bulletin Vol 87 #1 2018 photo fide;
Orchids, A Colombian Treasure Vol 1 Ortiz & Uribe 2014 drawing/photo fide;
Orchid Genera and Species in Guatemala Archila, Szlachchetko, Chiron, Lipinska, Mystkowska and Bertolini 2018;
Materials to the Orchid Flora of Colombia: 249 Szlachetko & Kolanowska 2019
Materials to the Orchid Flora of Colombia: 250-1 Szlachetko & Kolanowska 2019 drawing fide
Flora Mesoamerica Vol 7 Parte 2 Orchidaceae MBG UNAM 2023
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