Microchilus arietinus (Rchb.f. & Warm.) Ormerod 2002 Photo by Dalton Holland Baptista
LATER
EARLY
Common Name The Ram-Like Microchilus [refers to the shape of the lip apex]
Flower Size .2" [5 mm]
Found in Venezuela, Brazil, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia and northern Argentina in rain or cloud forests at elevations of 400 to 1500 meters as a small sized, hot to warm growing terrestrial with sometimes white variegated green leaves that blooms in the summer to early fall on a terminal, erect, fairly dense several to many flowered inflorescence
Synonyms Erythrodes arietina (Rchb.f. & Warm.) Ames 1922; Physurus arietinus Rchb.f. & Warm. 1881; Physurus micranthus Kraenzl. 1921
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Otia Botanica Hamburgensia Rchb.f 1881 as Physurus arientinus; Icones Planetarum Tropicarum Series II Orchids of Bolivia plate 0339 Dodson & Vasquez 1989 as Erythrodes arietina drawing fide; Flora of the Venezuelan Guayana Vol 7 Steyermark, Berry, Yatskievych and Holst 2003 as Erythrodes arietina drawing fide
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