Microchilus nigrescens (Schltr.) Ormerod 2002
Plant and Flowers in situ Panama Photos by © Wilfried Löderbusch
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Common Name The Blackish Microchilus
Flower Size .2" [4mm]
Found in Costa Rica, Panama and Ecuador in premontane to lower montane cloud forests at elevtions of 900 to 1600 meters as a small to large sized, warm to cool growing terrestrial in deep shade with an elongate rhizome giving rise to an elongate stem carrying 5 to 8, convolute, elliptic-ovate, acuminate, gradually narrwoing below into the distinct petiolate base leaves that blooms in the late winter and early spring on a terminal, 4 to 7.2" [10 to 18 cm] long, densely, somewhat successively many flowered inflorescence
Synonyms Erythrodes killipii Ames 1921; Erythrodes nigrescens (Schltr.) Ames 1922; Microchilus killipii (Ames) Ormerod 2002; Physurus nigrescens Schltr. 1918
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Icones Planetarum Tropicarum Plate 1532 Atwood 1993 as Erythrodes killipii drawing fide; Native Ecuadorian Orchids Vol 2 Dodson 2001 as Erythrodes nigrescens drawing fide; Orchids of Costa Rica Vol 1 Morales 2009 as Erythrodes killipii photo fide ;
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