Cyclopogon venustus (Barb.Rodr.) Schltr. 1920
SUBGENUS Stigmatosema
Drawing by © Pabst and Dungs and Orchidaceae Brasilenses Band 1 1975
TYPE Drawing by © Barb Rodr.
EARLIER 
Common Name or Meaning The Beautiful Cyclopogon
Flower Size .2" [5 mm]
Found in Rio de Janiero and Disticto Federal states of Brazil in primary forests at elevations around 500 to 600 meters as a miniature to small sized, warm growing terrestrial with a single basal, membraneous, erect, ovate, abruptly acute, rounded to subtruncate below into the somewhat petiolate base leaf that blooms fall and earlier winter on a terminal, erect, peduncle 4.8 to 5.6" [12 to 14 cm] long, with 6 to 8, adpressed, long-acuminate, slightly puberulent, whitish with green spots sheathing bracts, rachis to 1.2" [3 cm] long, 5 to 8 flowered inflorescence with linear-lanceolate, acute to long acuminate, shorter than the flowers floral bracts and carrying filiform, shortly pedicellate, small flowers.
Synonyms Beadlea venusta (Barb.Rodr.) Garay 1980 publ. 1982; *Stenorrhynchos venustum Barb.Rodr. 1901; Stigmatosema venustum (Barb.Rodr.) Mytnik, Rutk. & Szlach. 2006
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
Contr. Jard. Bot. Rio de Janeiro 1: 49 Barb Rodr. 1901 as Stenorrhynchos venustum
Contr. Jard. Bot. Rio de Janeiro 1: Tab X Barb Rodr. 1901 as Stenorrhynchos venustum drawing
Flora Brasilense Vol 3 Part 6: 536 Cogniaux 1906;
* Beih. Bot. Centralbl. 37(2): 396 Schlechter 1920
Flora Brasilica Vol XII II 13 43: 198 Hoehne 1945; Orchidaceae Brasilenses Band 1 Pabst & Dungs 1975 drawing fide; Bot. Mus. Leafl. 28: 301 Garay 1980 publ. 1982 as Beadlea venusta
Orchidee (Hamburg) 57: 581 Mytnik, Rutk. & Szlach. 2006 as Stigmatosema venustum
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