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

Common Name or Meaning The Olive-Green Cyclopogon

Flower Size .1" [2 mm]

Found in Guatemala, Honduras, Panama, Colombia, Guyana, Fr Guiana, Surinam, Ecuador and Peru in pluvial montane forests at elevations around 400 to 1000 meters as a small sized, warm to cool growing terrestrial orchid with very a short stem carrying a few, basal, whorled, narrowly elliptic-ovate, brownish green speckled with pink, acute to acuminate apically, cuneate below into the elongate petiolate base leaves that blooms in the fall on an erect, pubescent, to 16" [40 cm] long, loosely many flowered inflorescence

Synonyms Beadlea olivacea (Rolfe) Garay 1978; Cyclopogon stictophyllus Schltr. 1920; Sarcoglottis olivacea (Rolfe) Schltr. 1921; *Spiranthes olivacea Rolfe 1892;

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Flora of Ecuador No 9 225[1] Garay 1978 as Beadlea olivacea drawing good; Icones Planetarum Tropicarum Plate 429 Dodson 1989 drawing fide; Native Ecuadorian Orchids VOl 1 Dodson 1993 photo fide; Flora Of Ecuador # 76 225[2] Dodson & Luer 2005

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