Cyclopogon longibracteatus (Barb. Rodr.) Schltr. 1920

SUBGENUS Beadlea [Small] Szlach 1993

Photo by © Chiron

EARLY

Common Name The Long-Bracted Cyclopogon

Flower Size 1/2" [1.25 cm]

Found in Minas Gerais state of Brazil and Paraguay at elevations of 300 to 700 meters as a small to medium sized, cool to cold growing terrestrial or epiphyte with narrowly elliptic, acute, gradually narrowing below into the channeled petiolate base leaves that blooms in the winter and early spring in nature on a terminal, erect, peduncle 7" [17.5 cm] long, enveloped almost completely by imbricate, lanceolate, acute sheathing bracts, rachis 2.8 to 3.2" [7 to 8 cm] long, densely several flowered inflorescence with narrowly lanceolate, long-acuminate, very puberulous, longer than the flower floral bracts

Synonyms Beadlea longibracteata (Barb. Rodr.) Garay 1982; Cyclopogon trilineatus Barb.Rodr. 1882; *Spiranthes longibracteata Barb. Rodr. 1877; Spiranthes rodriguesii Cogn. 1895

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;

Gen. Spec. Orchid. 1: 185 Barb Rodr. 1877 as Spiranthes longibracteata

Gen. Spec. Orchid. 2: 284 Barb Rodr. 1882 as Cyclopogon trilineatus

Fl. Bras. 3(4): 204 Cogniaux 1895 as Spiranthes rodriguesii

Fl. Bras. 3(4): 204 Cogniaux 1895 as Spiranthes rodriguesii drawing fide

* Beih. Bot. Centralbl. 37(2): 390 Schlechter 1920

Flora Brasilica Vol XII II 13-43: 190 Orchidaceae Hoehne 1945

Flora Brasilica Vol XII II 13-43: Tab 93 Orchidaceae Hoehne 1945 drawing fide;

Orchidaceae Brasilenses Band 1 Pabst & Dungs 1975 drawing fide;

Bot. Mus. Leafl. 28: 301 Garay 1980 publ. 1982;

The Organ Mountain Range, ite History and its Orchids Miller, Warren, Miller and Seehawer 2008 drawing fide;

Orchidees du Bresil As Orquideas da Serra do Castelo Espirito Santo Brasil Vol 1 Chiron & Bolsanello 2015 drawing fide/photo fide

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