Orchidaceae
Cyclopogon

Cyclopogon cranichoides (Griseb.) Schltr.

First published in Beih. Bot. Centralbl. 37(2): 387 (1920)
This species is accepted
The native range of this species is S. Florida to Tropical America. It is a tuberous geophyte and grows primarily in the wet tropical biome.

Descriptions

Bernal, R., Gradstein, S.R. & Celis, M. (eds.). 2015. Catálogo de plantas y líquenes de Colombia. Instituto de Ciencias Naturales, Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Bogotá. http://catalogoplantasdecolombia.unal.edu.co

Distribution
Nativa en Colombia.
Morphology General Habit
Hierba
Conservation
No Evaluada
[CPLC]

George R. Proctor (2012). Flora of the Cayman Isands (Second Edition). Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew

Morphology General Habit
Small, terrestrial herbs with fleshy, fusiform roots
Morphology Leaves
Leaves 1–5(–8), spreading and forming a loose, basal rosette; petioles 11–35(–55) mm long; blades broadly elliptic to ovate, 2.5–8 cm long, purplish below, dark green above, sometimes with whitish markings
Morphology Reproductive morphology Inflorescences
Inflorescence a many-flowered raceme; floral bracts lanceolate, longer than the ovary, mottled. Sepals pubescent, greenish-brown, dorsal sepal midvein and margins dark near the apex, linear-elliptical to narrowly pandurate, acute, 3.5–5 mm long, lateral sepals often reflexed, linear-elliptical to linear-pandurate, acute, 4–6 mm long; petals greenish-brown proximally, greenish white distally with midvein and apical margins dark brown, linear spatulate-oblanceolate, acute, oblique, loosely adnate to the dorsal sepal, to 4.5 mm long; lip white, to 5 mm long, 2.5 mm wide, basally gibbose, oblong, constricted above the middle, slightly flared at the apex, provided with a pair of basal tubercles
Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Column
Column slender, clavate, ca. 3.5 mm long
Morphology Reproductive morphology Fruits
Capsules erect, ellipsoidal, 6–8 mm long.
Distribution
Grand Cayman. Florida, Bahamas, Cuba, Cayman Islands, Jamaica, Dominican Republic, Puerto Rico, United States Virgin Islands, Dominica, Guadeloupe, Grenada, Mexico, Guatemala, Belize, Honduras and Venezuela.
[Cayman]

Distribution
Native to Colombia.
Habit
Herb.
[UPFC]

Extinction risk predictions for the world's flowering plants to support their conservation (2024). Bachman, S.P., Brown, M.J.M., Leão, T.C.C., Lughadha, E.N., Walker, B.E. https://nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/nph.19592

Conservation
Predicted extinction risk: not threatened. Confidence: confident
[AERP]

Sources

  • Angiosperm Extinction Risk Predictions v1

    • Angiosperm Threat Predictions
    • http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0

  • Catálogo de Plantas y Líquenes de Colombia

    • http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0

  • Flora of the Cayman Islands

    • Flora of the Cayman Islands
    • http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0

  • Herbarium Catalogue Specimens

    • Digital Image © Board of Trustees, RBG Kew http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

  • Kew Names and Taxonomic Backbone

    • The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants 2024. Published on the Internet at http://www.ipni.org and https://powo.science.kew.org/
    • © Copyright 2023 International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0

  • Kew Science Photographs

    • Copyright applied to individual images

  • Useful Plants and Fungi of Colombia

    • http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0

  • World Checklist of Vascular plants (WCVP)

    • The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants 2024. Published on the Internet at http://www.ipni.org and https://powo.science.kew.org/
    • © Copyright 2023 World Checklist of Vascular Plants. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0