Microchilus anchoriferus (Schltr.) Ormerod 2002
Leaves Photos by © Rebecca Repasky and Atrium Andes Biodiversity Information System
Common Name or Meaning The Anchor Carrying Erythrodes
Flower Size .1" [2 mm]
Found Ecuador, Peru and Bolivia in wet montane forests at elevations of 800 to 1300 meters as a medium sized, warm growing terretrial with pubescent roots and a recumbent stem carrying in a spiral, dark green with greenish white spots, carinate on the midline, broadly elliptic, acute, gradually narrowing below into the pewtiolate base leaves that blooms in the spring to fall on an erect, terminal, to 12" [30 cm] long, many flowered inflorescence
Synonyms Erythrodes anchorifera (Schltr.) Garay 1978; Erythrodes marmorata C.Schweinf. 1941; Microchilus marmoratus (C.Schweinf.) Ormerod 2004; *Physurus anchoriferus Schltr. 1913
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
Flora of Ecuador No 9 225[1] Garay 1978 as Erythrodes anchorifera; Icones Planetarum Tropicarum Plate 494 Dodson 1989 as Erythrodes anchorifera drawing fide; Native Ecuadorian Orchids Vol 2 Dodson 2001 as Erythrodes anchorifera photo ok
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