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Cyclopogon elatus

species of plant

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJun 24, 2022
Entity authorityQ15442075 ↗
Source-derived summary

Cyclopogon elatus is a species of terrestrial orchids. It is widespread across much of Latin America from Mexico and Belize to Argentina, as well as in the West Indies and southern Florida.

References

External links

IOSPE orchid photos, Cyclopogon elatus (Sw.) Schltr. 1919 Photo courtesy of Eric Hunt

Swiss Orchid Foundation at Herbarium Jany Renz, Cyclopogon elatus

Orquídeas de Misiones (Argentina), sábado, 19 de abril de 2008 Cyclopogon elatus (Sw.) Schltr.

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Cyclopogon elatus” is species of plant. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Cyclopogon, elatus and species, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewUseful for establishing the present vocabulary of the subject while preserving a route back to the evidence on which that vocabulary rests. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1919, 2008—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. For this dossier, Cyclopogon, elatus and species is the immediate research focus.
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The phrase “species of plant” supplies a clear boundary for inquiry. It also exposes the unanswered questions: who defined that boundary, when it became stable and which sources sit outside it.

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The date and method of observation matter as much as the stated conclusion, especially where classification or consensus has changed. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jun 24, 2022. The linked authority identifier is Q15442075. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1919 and 2008.

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This entry incorporates text from “Cyclopogon elatus” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.