Microchilus argenteus (Vell.) E.C.Smidt & M.W.Chase 2021

Photo courtesy of Dalton Holland Baptista

Leaves

Photos by © Mathias E. Engels and Bot. J. Linn. Soc. 197: 337 2021

Drawing of Physurus callodictyus

Drawing of Physurus callodictyus by © Hoehne and Flora Brasilica Vol XII II 13-43: tab 199 Hoehne 1945

Common Name The Silvery Microchilus

Flower Size .2" [5 mm]

Found in Venezuela?, southeastern Brazil, Paraguay and Argentina as a miniature to small sized, cool growing terrestrial orchid at elevations of sea level to 500 meters with an erect stem carrying a few, distant, erect-patent, widely lanceolate, ovate-lanceolate or ovate, acute to shortly acuminate, reticulate with silver on dark green, cuneate below into the petiolate base leaves that blooms in the spring on an erect, pubescent, 2.4 to 10" [6 to 25 cm] long, few to densely many flowered inflorescence .

Synonyms Anoectochilus argenteus (Vell.) Loudon 1850; Anoectochilus pictus (Lindl.) Loudon 1850; Aspidogyne argentea (Vell.) Garay 1977; Erythrodes picta (Lindl.) Ames 1915; Erythrodes picta var. reticularis (Rchb.f.) Pabst 1972; Microchilus pictus (Lindl.) D.Dietr. 1852; *Ophrys argentea Vell. 1831; Physurus argenteus (Vell.) Koch & Lauch 1857; Physurus callodictyus Kraenzl. 1911; Physurus pictus Lindl. 1840; Physurus pictus var. holargyrus Rchb.f. 1857; Physurus pictus var. reticularis Rchb.f 1857

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;

Fl. Flumin. 9: t. 61 Vell 1831 as Ophrys argentea

Gen. Sp. Orchid. Pl.: 504 Lindley 1840 as Physurus pictus

Suppl. Hort. Brit.: 608 Louden 1850 as Anoectochilus pictus

Syn. Plant. 5: 166 Dietr. 1852 as Microchilus pictus

Berliner Allg. Gartenzeitung 1857: 5 Koch & Lauch 1857 as Physurus argenteus

Cat. Orch.-Samml. Schiller, ed. 3: 59 6: 1279 Rchb.f 1857 as Physurus pictus var. holargyrus

Cat. Orch.-Samml. Schiller, ed. 3: 59 6: 1279 Rchb.f 1857 as Physurus pictus var. reticularis

Cat. Pl. Exot. 14: 13 Linden 1859 as Anoectochilus argenteus

Refugium Botanicum 2: tab 73 Reichenbach 1869 as Physurus pictus drawing fide;

Kongl. Svenska Vetensk. Acad. Handl., n.f., 46(10): 40 Kraenzlin 1911 as Physurus callodictyus

Orchidaceae 5: 29 Ames 1915 as Erythrodes picta

Die Orchideen: 118 Schlechter 1915 as Physurus pictus;

Flora Brasilica Vol XII II 13-43: 360 Hoehne 1945 as Physurus callodictyus

Flora Brasilica Vol XII II 13-43: tab 199 Hoehne 1945 as Physurus callodictyus drawing fide;

Flora Brasilica Vol XII II 13-43: 381 Hoehne 1945 as Physurus pictus

Flora Brasilica Vol XII II 13-43: 362 Hoehne 1945 as Physurus pictus var holargyrus

Flora Brasilica Vol XII II 13-43: tab 200 fig 1 Hoehne 1945 as Physurus pictus var holargyrus drawing ok;

Flora Brasilica Vol XII II 13-43: 362 Hoehne 1945 as Physurus pictus var reticularis;

Flora Brasilica Vol XII II 13-43: tab 200 fig 2 Hoehne 1945 as Physurus pictus var reticularis drawing ok;

Iconographia de Orchidaceae Do Brasil Hoehne 1949 as Physurus calodictyus drawing fide;

Iconographia de Orchidaceae Do Brasil Hoehne 1949 as Physurus pictus;

Flora de Venezuela Foldats Volumen XV Part 1 1969 as Erythrodes picta drawing fide;

Fl. Analit. Fitogeogr. São Paulo 6: 1279 Pabst 1972 as Erythrodes picta var. reticularis

Orchidaceae Brasilensis Vol 1: 131 Pabst & Dungs 1975 as Erythrodes picta

Orchidaceae Brasilensis Vol 1: 288 fig 531 Pabst & Dungs 1975 as Erythrodes picta drawing hmm;

Bradea 2: 203 Garay 1977 as Aspidogyne argentea

Native Ecuadorian Orchids Dodson 1994;

Flora's Orchids Nash & La Croix 2005;

Orchidees du Bresil As Orquideas da Serra Do Castelo Vol 1 Chiron & Bolsanello 2015 drawing/photo fide;

* Bot. J. Linn. Soc. 197: 337 E.C.Smidt & M.W.Chase 2021 as

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