Cyclopogon peruvianus (C.Presl) Schltr. 1920 Photo by © by K Senghas and the Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbarium

LATER THROUGH MID

Common Name or Meaning The Peruvian Cyclopogon

Flower Size .1" [2.5 mm]

Found in Colombia, Venezuela, Ecuador, Peru and Bolivia at elevations of 1400 to 3100 meters as a miniature sized, cool to cold growing terrestrial orchid with narrowly elliptic, acute, gradually narrowing below into the channeled, elongate, petiolate base leaves that blooms in the later spring through mid fall on an erect, to 10" [to 25 cm] long, several to many flowered inflorescence

Synonyms Beadlea peruviana (C.Presl) Garay 1978; Cyclopogon cranichoides Schltr. 1921; Cyclopogon maderoi Schltr. 1920; Cyclopogon spiranthoides Schltr. 1920; Gyrostachys minutiflora Kuntze 1891; Gyrostachys peruviana (C.Presl) Kuntze 1891; Spiranthes minutiflora Rchb.f. 1854; *Spiranthes peruviana C.Presl 1827; Spiranthes reichenbachiana Garay & Dunst. 1966; Spiranthes spiranthoides (Schltr.) Garay & Dunst. 1976

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Flora of Ecuador No 9 225[1] Garay 1978 as Beadlea peruvianus drawing ok; Orchids of Venezuela, An Illustrated Field Guide Vol 1 Dunsterville & Garay 1979 as Beadlea peruvianus not = C millei; Icones Orchidacearum Peruviarum Plate 025 Bennett & Christenson 1993 drawing ok; Native Ecuadorian Orchids vol 1 Dodson 1993 photo fide; Orchids of Venezuela [An illustrated field guide] Vol. 1 Ramiro and Carnevali 2000 drawing not = C millei; Orchids of Venezuela [An illustrated field guide] Vol. 1 Ramiro and Carnevali 2000 drawing fide; Orquideas Nativas del Tachira Cesar Fernandez 2003 photo good; Flora Of Ecuador # 76 225[2] Dodson & Luer 2005 drawing fide

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