Cyclopogon millei (Schltr.) Schltr.1920
SUBGENUS Beadlea [Small] Szlach 1993
Photos by © Saul Altamirano A. and The Parque Nacional Carrasco, Cochabamba Bolivia, Orquideas del Proyecto Hidroelectrico Ivirizu Website
Drawing By © Dunsterville & Garay
Specimen By © Jany Renz
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, Cundinamarca department of Colombia, Carchi and Pinchincha provinces of Ecuador, Peru and Bolivia in shrubby woods along streams at elevations of 800 to 3600 as a miniature sized, warm to cold growing terrestrial with elliptic, ovate to broadly lanceolate, acute, conduplicate, slender, basally rounded, elongate, channeled petiolate base leaves that blooms in the winter through mid-summer on an erect, terminal, peduncle 8 to 14" [20 to 35 cm] long, glanduular in the upper part, prvoded with many, lanceolate, acuminate sheathing bracts, rachis 2 to 6" [5 to 15 cm] long, often secund, puberulent, laxly 15 to 25 flowered inflorescence with lanceolate, to ovate-lanceolate, long acuminate, twice longer than the ovary floral bracts and carrying greenish-white, glaberous exept at the base flowers suffused with brown.
Distinguished by the large flowers with a flared apex to the lip with a suborbicular apical lobe, the one sided rachis, the loosely many flowered inflorescence, the disc of the lip cushion-like on the terminal lobe, and the pair of intramarginal, flat, conical calli at the base of the lip blade.
Synonyms Beadlea millei (Schltr.) Garay 1978; *Spiranthes millei Schltr.1915
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
Repert. Spec. Nov. Regni Veg. 14: 118 Schlechter 1915 as Spiranthes millei
* Beih. Bot. Centralbl. 37(2): 391 Schlechter 1920
Flora Brasilica Vol XII II 13-43: 181 Orchidaceae Hoehne 1945;
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;
Icones Plantarum Tropicarum Plate 505 Dodson 1982 as Beadlea millei drawing fide to the first drawing;
Icones Plantarum Tropicarum Plate 428 Dodson 1989 drawing fide to the second drawing;
Native Ecuadorian Orchids Vol 1 Escobar & Dodson 1993 drawing fide to the first drawing;
Field Guide to the Orchids of Costa Rica and Panama Dressler 1993;
Orchids of Venezuela [An illustrated field guide] Vol. 1 Ramiro and Carnevali 2000 drawing fide to the first drawing;
Flora Of Ecuador # 76 225[1]: 268 Orchidaceae Dodson & Luer 2005 as Beadlea millei fide to the first drawing; Orchids of Peru Zelenko & Bermudez 2009 photo good;
Orchids, A Colombian Treasure Vol 1 Ortiz & Uribe 2014 drawing/photo fide;
Materials to the Orchid Flora of Colombia Vol 2: 279 Szlachetko & Kolanowska 2019 drawing fide
The Parque Nacional Carrasco, Cochabamba Bolivia, Orquideas del Proyecto Hidroelectrico Ivirizu Website 2021 photo fide;
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