Cyclopogon millei (Schltr.) Schltr.1920 Specimen By © Jany Renz and the Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria

THROUGH MID

Common Name Mille's Cyclopogon [American Orchid Enthusiast and Collector in South America earlier 1900's]]

Flower Size .2" [5 mm]

Found in Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru and Bolivia as a miniature sized, cool to cold growing terrestrial at elevations around 800 to 3600 meters with elliptic, acute leaves gradually narrowing below into the elongate, channeled, petiolate, wider below base leaves that blooms in the winter through mid-summer on an erect, 12" [30 cm] long, laxly several flowered inflorescence

Synonyms Beadlea millei (Schltr.) Garay 1978; *Spiranthes millei Schltr.1915

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Venezuelan Orchids Illustrated Vol 5 Dunsterville & Garay 1972 as Spiranthes peruviana not = C millei drawing good; Flora of Ecuador No 9 225[1] Garay 1978 as Beadlea millei; Orchids of Venezuela, An Illustrated Field Guide Vol 1 Dunsterville & Garay 1979 as Beadlea millei drawing fide; Orchids of Venezuela [An illustrated field guide] Vol. 1 Ramiro and Carnevali 2000 drawing fide;

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