Cyclopogon millei (Schltr.) Schltr.1920
Photos by © Saul Altamirano A. and The Parque Nacional Carrasco, Cochabamba Bolivia, Orquideas del Proyecto Hidroelectrico Ivirizu Website
Drawings By © Dodson and The Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria
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 at elevations of 800 to 3600 as a miniature sized, warm to cold growing terrestrial 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
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.
CAUTION!!! Dodson has 2 completely differnt drawings for this species. It appears that the 1st one is the most correct, but the only reason I think so is that in 2005 Dodson does not mention the 1989 drawing in a review of this species. Please use with caution!!!!!
Synonyms Beadlea millei (Schltr.) Garay 1978; *Spiranthes millei Schltr.1915
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Flora Brasilica Vol XII II 13-43 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 tothe 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 tothe first drawing; Flora Of Ecuador # 76 225[2] Orchidaceae Dodson & Luer 2005 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; The Parque Nacional Carrasco, Cochabamba Bolivia, Orquideas del Proyecto Hidroelectrico Ivirizu Website 2021 photo fide;
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