Cyclopogon peruvianus (C.Presl) Schltr. 1920

SUBGENUS Beadlea [Small] Szlach 1993

Photo by © by K Senghas

Colombian type

Photo by © by Hilda Dueñas and the Research Gate Website

Drawing

Drawing by © by Dunsterville & Garay

LATER THROUGH MID

Common Name or Meaning The Peruvian Cyclopogon

Flower Size .1" [2.5 mm]

Found in Venezuela, Boyaca, Guasijira, Magdalena, Norte de Santanter, Santander, Cundinamarca, Narino and Cauca departments of Colombia, Azuay and Chimboraza provinces of Ecuador, Ancash department of Peru and Bolivia in bosque andino in grassy paramo at elevations of 1200 to 3400 meters as a medium sized, cool to cold growing terrestrial with a basal rosette of 2 to 4, lanceolate, oblonglanceolate, acute, moderately fleshy, nitid, petiolate base leaves that blooms in the spring summer and fall on a terminal, erect, peduncle [27 to 32 cm] long, provided with 4 to 9, lanceolate, concave, imbricating, large, green sheathing bracts, densel;y glandular in the upper part, rachis [3 to 15 cm] long, densely to subdensely many flowered inflorescnece with ovate to ovate-lanceolate, comcave, long-acuminate, glabrous longer than the ovary floral bracts and carrying greenish flowers with semitransluscent, pale brown petals and a pale yellow lip.

"One of the most common cyclopogon in South America and is characteriszed by the narrow rather shortly petiolate leaves, the small inconspicuous flowers with the hypochile of the lip more or less quadrate in outline, ornamented basally with marginal thickenings on the auricles. Its Epichile is transversely elliptic, more or less obscurely 3 lobulatre and is what makes it distinct from Cyclopogon pelagalloanus .

Synonyms Beadlea peruviana (C.Presl) Garay 1978; Cyclopogon cranichoides Schltr. 1921; Cyclopogon minutiflorus (Kuntze) Schltr. 1919; Gyrostachys minutiflora Kuntze 1891; Gyrostachys peruviana (C.Presl) Kuntze 1891; Spiranthes minutiflora Rchb.f. 1854; *Spiranthes peruviana C.Presl 1827; Spiranthes reichenbachiana Garay & Dunst. 1966;

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;

Reliq. Haenk. 1: 93 S Presl. 1827 as Spiranthes peruviana

Bonplandia (Hannover) 2: 11 Rchb.f 1854 as Spiranthes minutiflora nom. illeg.

Revis. Gen. Pl. 2: 663 Kuntze 1891 as Gyrostachys peruviana

Revis. Gen. Pl. 2: 663 Kuntze 1891 as Gyrostachys minutiflora

Repert. Spec. Nov. Regni Veg. Beih. 6: 53 Schlechter 1919 as C minutiflorus

* Beih. Bot. Centralbl. 37(2): 393 Schlechter 1920

Repert. Spec. Nov. Regni Veg. Beih. 8: 45 Schlechter 1921 as C cranichoides nom illeg.

Flora Brasilica Vol XII II 13-43: 181 Orchidaceae Hoehne 1945 as C minutiflorus;

Flora Brasilica Vol XII II 13-43: 181 Orchidaceae Hoehne 1945;

Venez. Orchids Ill. 4: 284 Garay & Dunsterville 1966 as Spiranthes reichenbachiana

Flora de Venezuela Foldats Volumen XV Part 1 1969 as Spiranthes reichenbachianus drawing hmm;

Venezuelan Orchids Illustrated Vol 5 Dunsterville & Garay 1972 as Spiranthes peruviana not = C millei;

Flora of Ecuador No 9 225[1]: 269 Garay 1978 as Beadlea peruvianus drawing ok;

Orchids of Venezuela, An Illustrated Field Guide Vol 1 Dunsterville & Garay 1979 as Beadlea peruvianus;

Icones Orchidacearum Peruviarum Plate 025 Bennett & Christenson 1993 drawing good;

Native Ecuadorian Orchids vol 1 Dodson 1993 photo fide;

Orchids of Venezuela [An illustrated field guide] Vol. 1 Ramiro and Carnevali 2000 drawing fide;

Rudolf Schlechter Die Orchideen Band 1C lieferung 41 pg 2565 - 2625 Brieger 2001 as Beadlea peruviana photo fide;

Orquideas Nativas del Tachira Cesar Fernandez 2003 photo good;

Flora Of Ecuador # 76 225[2] Orchidaceae Dodson & Luer 2005 drawing fide;

Orchids of Peru Zelenko & Bermudez 2009 photo hmm;

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

Materials to the Orchid Flora of Colombia Vol 2: 247 fig 266 Szlachetko & Kolanowska 2019 drawing fide

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