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                            | Cyclopogon elatus
                                (Sw.) Schltr. Tall neottia, Tall lady’s-tresses
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                                      Copyright by: Keith A. Bradley, 15 March 2009In habitat, Fakahatchee Strand Preserve State Park
 Collier County, Florida, USA
 
                                    
                                    Family: Orchidaceae
                                    
                                    
                                    
                                    Group:  Monocot
                                    
                                    
                                    
                                    Substrate: 
					
                                   Terrestrial
                                    
                                    
                                    
                                    
                                    Habit: 
					
                                    Herb
                                    
                                    
                                    
                                    
                                    Perennation: 
					
                                   Perennial
                                    
                                    
                                    
                                    
                                    Native Range:  Peninsular Florida, the West Indies, Mexico, Central America and South America.
                                    
                                    
                                    
                                     Map of select IRC data for peninsular Florida
                                    
                                    
                                    NatureServe Global Status: 
					
                                    Apparently Secure
                                    
                                    
                                    
                                    
                                    State of Florida Status: 
					
                                    Endangered
                                    
                                    
                                    
                                    
                                    Florida Natural Areas Inventory State Status: 
					
                                    Possibly Extirpated or Extinct
                                    
                                    
                                    
                                    
                                    IRC SOUTH FLORIDA Status: 
									
                                    Critically Imperiled
                                    
                                    
                                    
                                    
                                    SOUTH FLORIDA Occurrence: 
				  
                                    Present
                                    
                                    
                                    
                                    
                                    SOUTH FLORIDA Native Status: 
					
                                    Native
                                    
                                    
                                    
                                    
                                    South Florida History and Distribution:  Ranked as possibly extirpated in Rare Plants of South Florida (Gann et al. 2002 ; pp 175-176) based on the last observation in 1980 at Big and Little George Hammocks in Miami-Dade County. Tall neottia was rediscovered in the Fakahatchee Strand Preserve State Park in 2009.  For a media account of this discovery, see the Naples News .
                                    
                                    
                                    
                                    SOUTH FLORIDA Cultivated Status: 
					
                                    Not Cultivated
                                    
                                    
                                    
                                    
                                    Synonyms: Spiranthes elata .
                                    
                                    
                                    
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                | Cyclopogon elatus  
                    has been found in the following
                    
                    2 counties
					    
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                | Collier County |  | Native |  
                | Miami-Dade County | Presumed Extirpated | Presumed Extirpated |  
 
 
            
            
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 Copyright by: Keith A. Bradley, 15 March 2009In habitat, Fakahatchee Strand Preserve State Park
 Collier County, Florida, USA
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 Copyright by: Keith A. Bradley, 14 March 2009In habitat, Fakahatchee Strand Preserve State Park
 Collier County, Florida, USA
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 Copyright by: George D. GannPhotograph of one of the last known plants in
 Miami-Dade County, c. 1980
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 Copyright by: George D. GannPhotograph of one of the last known plants in
 Miami-Dade County, c. 1980
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 Copyright by: Keith A. Bradley, 15 March 2009In habitat, Fakahatchee Strand Preserve State Park
 Collier County, Florida, USA
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 Copyright by: Keith A. Bradley, 15 March 2009In habitat, Fakahatchee Strand Preserve State Park
 Collier County, Florida, USA
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 Copyright by: Keith A. Bradley, 22 March 2009In habitat, Fakahatchee Strand Preserve State Park
 Collier County, Florida, USA
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 Copyright by: Keith A. Bradley, 22 March 2009In habitat, Fakahatchee Strand Preserve State Park
 Collier County, Florida, USA
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 Copyright by: Keith A. Bradley, 15 March 2009In habitat, Fakahatchee Strand Preserve State Park
 Collier County, Florida, USA
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 Copyright by: Keith A. Bradley, 15 March 2009In habitat, Fakahatchee Strand Preserve State Park
 Collier County, Florida, USA
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 Copyright by: Keith A. Bradley, 15 March 2009In habitat, Fakahatchee Strand Preserve State Park
 Collier County, Florida, USA
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 Copyright by: Keith A. Bradley, 15 March 2009In habitat, Fakahatchee Strand Preserve State Park
 Collier County, Florida, USA
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 Copyright by: Keith A. Bradley, 15 March 2009In habitat, Fakahatchee Strand Preserve State Park
 Collier County, Florida, USA
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 Copyright by: Keith A. Bradley, 15 March 2009In habitat, Fakahatchee Strand Preserve State Park
 Collier County, Florida, USA
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 Copyright by: Keith A. Bradley, 15 March 2009In habitat, Fakahatchee Strand Preserve State Park
 Collier County, Florida, USA
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