Cotylolabium
(pronounced: koh-til-oh-LAY-bee-um)
Classification
Cranichideae subtribe Spiranthinae
Overview
Terrestrial plants arising from fleshy fasciculate roots. Leaves sparse, scattered along the stem. Inflorescences terminal pedunculate racemes. Flowers few, arranged in a spiral. Sepals and petals subsimilar, free, the petals appressed to the dorsal sepal. Lip obscurely three-lobed, short-clawed, with a constriction above the base, without callus. Column straight, club-shaped, without wings, the rostellum needle-like; pollinia 2, club-shaped, on a common minute viscidium.
Etymology
From the Greek kotyla, meaning a cup-shaped cavity, and labios, meaning lip, referrring to the shape of the lip hypochile.
Distribution
A monotypic genus endemic to Brazil.
Care and Culture Card
See basic growing conditions and care information below.
Grow plants of Cotylolabium in pots of terrestrial mixture with the additional of sharp sand. Provide intermediate to warm temperatures, bright light levels, and regular watering while in active growth. After flowering reduce watering until the onset of new basal shoots.
Literature
Garay, L. A. 1980 (1982). A generic revision of the Spiranthinae. Bot. Mus. Leafl. 28(4):277-425. Pabst, G. F. J. 1955. Orchidaceae Lutzianae. Rev. Brasil. Biol. 15(2):191-198.
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