Cyclopogon williamsii Dodson & R.Vásquez 1989

SUBGENUS Beadlea [Small] Szlach 1993

TYPE Drawing by © Dodson

Common Name or Meaning William's Cyclopogon [American Orchid Botanist and collector of species - 1928 to 2020]

Flower Size .12" [3 mm]

Found in Cochabamba department of Bolivia in montane cloud forests at elevations around 1800 meters as a small sized, cool growing terrestrial with a basal rosette of linear, cuneiform, red, strongly carinate at the base leaves that blooms in the winter on a terminal, erect, slender, peduncle to 9" [22.5 cm] long, glabrous, provided with 7, lower 5, broadly lanceolate, acuminate, apically free, upper 2, narrower, smaller, free sheathing bracts, rachis pulverulent, 3" [7.5 cm] long, laxly several flowered inflorescence with glabrous, shorter than the ovary floral bracts and carrying small flowers with whitish sepals.

"Similar to Cyclopogon peruvianus but distinguished by the narrow, quill-like leaves and the more developed horne a the base of the lip." Dodson & Vasquez 1989

Synonyms

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;

*Icon. Pl. Trop., ser. 2, 4: t. 316 Dodson & Vasquez 1989

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