Microchilus stictophyllus (Schltr.) E.C.Smidt & M.W.Chase 2021
Photo by Roland Jimenez and his Flickr Orchid Photo Webpage
Photos by Greenwood © and The Herbario AMO Website
Drawing and Collection sheet by © Jany Renz and The Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria Website
Common Name The Spotted Leaf Microchilus
Flower Size .12" [3 mm]
Found in Mexico, Alta Verapaz department off Guatemala, Honduras, Costa Rica and Chiriqui province of Panama in dense forests at elevations around 1000 to 1800 meters as a small sized, cool growing terrestrial with an erect to ascending, slender, densely silky pubescent stem carrying on the lower half of the stem, obliquely ovate to lanceolate, acute to shortly acuminate, dark green with white spots, gradually narowing below into the shortly petiolate base leaves that blooms in the fall on an erect, 1.6 to 2.8" [4 to 7 cm] long, loosely 7 to 15 flowered inflorescence with lanceolate, acuminate, incurved, glabrous, scarious, as long as the ovary floral bracts .
"Unique in the genus with its very short spur up to .08" [2 mm] long, clavate to saccate-clavate, elliptic to transversely elliptic hypochile thickened in the center, with a truncate at the apex and obscurely 3 lobed epichile." Szlachetko & Kolanowska 2017
Synonyms Aspidogyne stictophylla (Schltr.) Garay 1977; Erythrodes stictophylla (Schltr.) Ames 1922; *Physurus stictophyllus Schltr. 1911
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
Repert. Spec. Nov. Regni Veg. 10: 249 Schlechter 1911 as Physurus stictophyllus
Studies in the family Orchidaceae Vol VII: 76 Ames 1922 as Erythrodes stictophylla; Orchids of Guatemala: 1465 Ames & Correll 1952 as Erythrodes stictophylla; Bradea 2: 204 Garay 1977 as Aspidogyne stictophylla Manual De Plants De Costa Rica Vol III Hammel, Grayum, Herrera and Zamora 2003 as Erythrodes stictophylla; Orchids of Mexico Hagsater, Soto, Salazar, Jimenez, Lopez & Dressler 2005 photo fide; Orchid Genera and Species in Guatemala Archila, Szlachchetko, Chiron, Lipinska, Mystkowska and Bertolini 2018 as Acropera galetea Materials to the Orchid Flora of Colombia Vol 1: 420 Szlachetko & Kolanowska 2017 as Aspidogyne stictophylla * Bot. J. Linn. Soc. 197: 344 E.C.Smidt & M.W.Chase 2021
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