Microchilus hyphaematicus (Rchb.f.) E.C.Smidt & M.W.Chase 2021

Drawing by © Foldats

Common Name The Thread-Like Microchilus

Flower Size .2" [5 mm]

Found in northwestern Venezuela at elevations of 500 to 1000 meters as a small sized, warm growing terrestrial with terete, decumbent then erect stem enveloped by amplexicaul, acuminate, sparsely glandulous-pilose sheaths and carrying 5, close, erect-patent, ovate-lanceolate, oblique, acute to acuminate-rounded below into the petiolate base leaves that blooms on a spicate, rachis to 2" [5 cm] long, oblong-cylindric, densely many flowered inflorescence with spreading, acuminate, as long as the ovary floral bracts and carrying small flowers for the genus.

Synonyms Aspidogyne hyphaematica (Rchb.f.) Garay 1977; Erythrodes hyphaematica (Rchb.f.) Ames 1922; Erythrodes pittieri (Schltr.) Ames 1922; *Physurus hyphaematicus Rchb.f. 1873; Physurus pittieri Schltr. 1919

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;

Xenia Orchid. 2: 184 Rchb.f 1873 as *Physurus hyphaematicus

Repert. Spec. Nov. Regni Veg. Beih. 6: 31 Schlechter 1919 as Physurus pittieri

Orchidaceae 7: 70 Ames 1922 as Erythrodes hyphaematica

Orchidaceae 7: 75 Ames 1922 as Erythrodes pittieri

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

*Bradea 2: 204 Garay 1977 as Aspidogyne hyphaematica

Materials to the Orchid Flora of Colombia Vol 1: 422 Szlachetko & Kolanowska 2017 as Aspidogyne hyphmaetica drawing fide;

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