Cyclopogon prasophyllus (Rchb.f.) Schltr. 1920
SUBGENUS Beadlea [Small] Szlach 1993
Photo by M Montiel and the MoBot Website
Photo by Loco Joes and the Loco Joe's Orchid Website
Drawing by Blanche Ames
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Common Name The Leek-Green Leaved Cyclopogon
Flower Size .2" [5 mm]
Found in Mexico, Guatemala, Belize, El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Cocole province of Panama and Cundinamarca department of Colombia at elevations of 400 to 1600 meters as a mini-miniature to small sized, warm to cool growing epiphyte with 1 to 4, basal, in a rosette, lanceolate, acute, gradually narrowing below into the cuneate, shortly petiolate base leaves that blooms in the winter and spring on an erect, terminal, peduncle 1.2 to 6.4" [3 to 16 cm] long, glandular in the apical portion, provided with 4 to 7, sheathing bracts, rachis 1.6 to 4.8" [4 to 12 cm] long, 8 to 25 flowered inflorescence with ovate-lanceolate, acute, glabrous, longer than the ovary floral bracts and carrying small flowers.
"Similar to Cyclopogon olivaceus in the lip structure ie the lateral veins of the lip are terminated with more or less prominent callii in the form of ridges or keels and the istmus margins are not thickened. The margins of the epichile of the lip of C prasophyllum are entire and the petals veins are not thickened while C olivaceous has an epichile that is not entire and the petals veins are thickened." Szlachetko & Kolanowska 2019
Synonyms Beadlea prasophylla (Rchb.f.) Hamer & Garay 1981; Gyrostachys prasophylla (Rchb.f.) Kuntze 1891; Spiranthes epiphytica Schltr.1906; *Spiranthes prasophylla Rchb.f. 1866
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
Beitr. Orchid.-K. C. Amer.: 65 Rchb.f 1866 as Spiranthes prasophylla
Revis. Gen. Pl. 2: 664 Kuntze 1891 as Gyrostachys prasophylla
Repert. Spec. Nov. Regni Veg. 2: 130 Schlechter 1906 as Spiranthes epiphytica
* Beih. Bot. Centralbl. 37(2): 393 Schlechter 1920
Flora Brasilica Vol XII II 13-43: 181 Orchidaceae Hoehne 1945;
The Orchids of Panama: 154 L.O. Williams & P Allen 1946 as Spiranthes prasophyllum
The Orchids of Panama: 155 L.O. Williams & P Allen 1946 as Spiranthes prasophyllum drawing good;
Las Orquedias De El Salvador Vol 2 Hamer 1974 as Spiranthes prasophylla photo fide;
Las Orquedias de El Salvador Vol 3: 27 Hamer 1981 as Beadlea prasophylla drawing hmm;
Icones Plantarum Tropicarm Plate 613 drawing fide;
Orchids of Guatemala and Belize: 124 Ames & Correll 1952 as Spiranthes prasophylla
Orchids of Guatemala and Belize: 125 Ames & Correll 1952 as Spiranthes prasophylla drawing good;
Orchids of Guatemala and Belize: 126 Ames & Correll 1952 as Spiranthes prasophylla var cleistogama;
Selbyana Vol 10: 29 Orchids of Central America Hamer 1988 as Beadlea prasophyllum drawing ok;
Field Guide to the Orchids of Costa Rica and Panama Dressler 1993;
Harvard Pap. Bot. 5 #2: 399 Carnevali etal 2001;
Manual de Plantas de Costa Rica Hammel, Grayum, Herrera, and Zamora 2005;
Vanishing Beauty, Native Costa Rican Orchids Vol 1 Pupulin 2005 photo ok;
Orchid Genera and Species in Guatemala Archila, Szlachchetko, Chiron, Lipinska, Mystkowska and Bertolini 2018;
Materials to the Orchid Flora of Colombia: 272 Szlachetko & Kolanowska 2019
Materials to the Orchid Flora of Colombia: 273 fig 267 Szlachetko & Kolanowska 2019 drawing fide
Flora Mesoamerica Vol 7 Parte 2 Orchidaceae MBG UNAM 2023
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