Microchilus lindleyanus (Cogn.) E.C.Smidt & M.W.Chase 2021

Inflorescence

Photos by © Prof. JOSE ANTONIO RADINS © and his Flora de Missiones website

Drawing

Drawing by © von Martius, Eichler, Urban © and Wikimedia website

LATE EARLY

Common Name Lindley's Microchilus [English Botanist 1800's]

Flower Size .16" [4 mm]

Found in Rio Grande do Sul state of Brazil and Missiones state of Argentina as a medium sized, cool growing terrestrial with a leafy stem carrying, elliptic, acute, gradually narrowing below into the conduplicate, basally clasping leaves that blooms in the late winter and early spring on an erect, terminal, 4" [10 cm] long, many flowered inflorescence with lanceolate, acute, shorter than the flower floral bracts

Synonyms Aspidogyne lindleyana (Cogn.) Garay 1977; Erythrodes lindleyana (Cogn.) Ames 1922; *Physurus lindleyanus Cogn. 1895; Physurus lindmanii Kraenzl.1911

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;

Fl. Bras. 3(4): 238 Cogniaux 1895 as Physurus lindleyanus

Fl. Bras. 3(4): tab 55 Cogniaux 1895 as Physurus lindleyanus drawing fide

Kongl. Svenska Vetensk. Acad. Handl., n.f., 46(10): 38 Kraenzlin 1911 as Physurus lindmanii

Repert. Spec. Nov. Regni Veg. Beih. 35: 43 Schlechter 1925 as Physurus lindmanii;

Studies in the family Orchidaceae Vol VII: 71 Ames 1922 as Erythrodes lindleyana;

Flora Brasilica Vol XII II 13-43: 345 Hoehne 1945 as Physurus lindmanii

Flora Brasilica Vol XII II 13-43: tab 185 fig 1 Hoehne 1945 as Physurus lindmanii drawing ok;

Flora Brasilica Vol XII II 13-43: 347 Hoehne 1945 as Physurus lindleyanus;

Flora Brasilica Vol XII II 13-43: tab187 Hoehne 1945 as Physurus lindleyanus drawing fide

Orchidaceae Brasilensis Vol 1 Pabst & Dungs 1975 as Erythrodes lindleyana drawing ok;

Bradea 2: 202 Garay 1977 as Aspidogyne lindleyana

* Bot. J. Linn. Soc. 197: 341 E.C.Smidt & M.W.Chase 2021

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