Cyclopogon olivaceus (Rolfe) Schltr. 1920

SUBGENUS Beadlea [Small] Szlach 1993

Inflorescence

Plant

Photos by © by K Senghas

Drawinng

Drawing by © Szachetko 2005

Common Name or Meaning The Olive-Green Cyclopogon

Flower Size .1" [2 mm]

Found in Guatemala, Honduras, Panama, Boyaca, Huila and Valle de Cauca departments of Colombia, Guyana, Fr Guiana, Surinam, Ecuador and Peru in pluvial montane forests at elevations around 400 to 2200 meters as a small sized, warm to cold growing terrestrial orchid with very a short stem carrying a few, basal, whorled, narrowly elliptic-ovate, brownish green speckled with pink, acute to acuminate apically, cuneate below into the elongate petiolate base leaves that blooms in the summer, fall and winter on an erect, pubescent, to 16" [40 cm] long, loosely many flowered inflorescence

Distiguished by the green leaves variously marked and white spotted, the terminal lobe of the lip luneate, the margins thickened at the isthmus, and the petals with a conical callus at the termination of the midvein.

"It is allied to !Cyclopogon ovalifolius also a Peruvian species. The leaves are of a dark glaucous- or olive-green shade, with a few very small white blotches. The sepals are light olive green below, tipped with very light pink above; the petals of a similar shade below, passing into pellucid white above, with a pink mid-nerve; and the lip also white, margined with green about the middle of the claw, which point is also a little broader and appressed to the sides of the column." Rolfe 1892

Synonyms Beadlea olivacea (Rolfe) Garay 1978; Cyclopogon stictophyllus Schltr. 1920; Sarcoglottis olivacea (Rolfe) Schltr. 1921; *Spiranthes olivacea Rolfe 1892;

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;

Bull. Misc. Inform. Kew 1892: 141 Rolfe 1892 as Spiranthes olivacea

* Beih. Bot. Centralbl. 37(2): 392 Schlechter 1920

Beih. Bot. Centralbl. 37(2): 394 Schlechter 1920 as Cyclopogon stictophyllus

Repert. Spec. Nov. Regni Veg. Beih. 9: 130 Schlechter 1921 as Sarcoglottis olivacea

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

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

Orchids of Peru Vol 1: 141 Schweinfurth 1958 as Spiranthes olivacea;

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

Icones Planetarum Tropicarum Plate 429 Dodson 1989 drawing fide;

Native Ecuadorian Orchids Vol 1 Dodson 1993 photo not = Cyclopogon secundum;

Field Guide to the Orchids of Costa Rica and Panama Dressler 1993;

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

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

Manual de Plantas de Costa Rica Hammel, Grayum, Herrera, and Zamora 2005;

Vanishing Beauty, Native Costa Rican Orchids Vol 1 Pupulin 2005 photo fide;

Orchids of the Department of Valle de Cauca Colombia Szatchetko & Kolanowska 2012 drawing/photo fide;

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

Materials to the Orchid Flora of Colombia Vol 2: 273 Szlachetko & Kolanowska 2019

Materials to the Orchid Flora of Colombia Vol 2: 274 fig 268 Szlachetko & Kolanowska 2019 drawing fide

Flora Mesoamerica Vol 7 Parte 2 Orchidaceae MBG UNAM 2023

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