Cyclopogon oliganthus (Hoehne) Hoehne & Schltr. 1926
SUBGENUS Beadlea [Small] Szlach 1993
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MID
Common Name The Few Flowered Cyclopogon
Flower Size .4" [1 cm]
Found in southern Brazil, Uruguay and northern Argentina in peaty swamps in moss as a mini-miniature sized, cool to cold growing terrestrial orchid with 1 to 3, suborbicular, obtuse to round, abruptly narrowing below into the elongate, petiolate base leaves that blooms in the mid winter on a terminal, erect, peduncle 4" [6 to 8 cm] long, provided with 3 to 4, laxly clasping, fleshy, pilose sheathing bracts, rachis .8" [2 cm] long, 1 to 3 flowered inflorescence with a few, tubular, acute bracts with twisted, clinging almost as long as the ovary floral bracts.
Schlechter compared this species to Hapalorchis lineatus but differs from it and many others by its fleshy thickening of the sepals and by the shape of the lip with a limbo that is noticeably rosy-granulose and the apex is emarginate.
Synonyms Beadlea oligantha (Hoehne) Garay 1980 publ. 1982; *Spiranthes oligantha Hoehne 1918; Warscaea oligantha (Hoehne) Szlach. 1994
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
Revista Mus. Paul. Univ. São Paulo 10: 442 Hoehne 1918 as Spiranthes oligantha
*Arch. Bot. São Paulo 1: 189 Hoehne & Schltr. 1926
Flora Brasilica Vol XII II 13-43: 195 Orchidaceae Hoehne 1945
Flora Brasilica Vol XII II 13-43: tab 95 fig 1 Orchidaceae Hoehne 1945drawing good;
Orchidaceae Brasilenses Band 1 Pabst & Dungs 1975 drawing ok
Bot. Mus. Leafl. 28: 301 Garay 1980 publ. 1982
Fragm. Florist. Geobot. 39: 562 Szlach 1994 as Warscaea oligantha
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