Cyclopogon
ladies'-tresses
fasciculate, fleshy, villous.
simple, rhizomatous.
few to many, basal, petiolate;
blade not articulate, convolute, mostly ovate to elliptic, soft.
terminal, many-flowered spikes or racemes, erect;
scapes bracteate.
resupinate, horizontal, greenish or yellowish green, small;
sepals subparallel, distinct or connate at base, forming obscure mentum with base of column or sepaline nectar tube;
petals connivent with dorsal sepal;
lip clawed, sagittate to cordate, constricted proximal to apex;
lateral margins appressed to sides of column;
column erect;
pollinia 2, clavate-oblong, mealy;
stylar canal entrance central;
stigma lobes 2, distinct or approximate;
rostellum longer than wide;
viscidium relatively large, disc-shaped;
ovary sessile or subsessile.
capsules.
Cyclopogon
Species 70 (2 in the flora).
All species of Cyclopogon except the holotype were placed in the genus Beadlea (L. A. Garay 1980[1982]) because their perianth base was not united into a tube. That characteristic was rejected as a valid generic distinction but the taxon was recognized as Cyclopogon sect. Beadlea (P. Burns-Balogh 1982; P. Burns-Balogh and H. Robinson 1983). The perianth tube character is a matter of degree and not one of presence or absence (D. L. Szlachetko 1993).
(Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.)
1. Midvein and margins of petals darkened distally; lip broadest proximal to apical constriction; leaf blades purplish abaxially, dark purplish green adaxially; petioles spreading to suberect, 1.1–3.5(–5.5) cm. | C. cranichoides |
1. Midvein and margins of petals unmarked distally; lip broadest distal to apical constriction or distal and proximal parts of lip equal in width; leaf blades green; petioles erect, 3–10 cm. | C. elatus |
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