Microchilus jamesonii (Garay) E.C.Smidt & M.W.Chase 2021
Photo by © Alex Reynolds and the ORCHIDS of MAQUIPUCUNA Website
Photo by © Alexander Hirtz
TYPE Drawing of Erythrodes jamesonii
TYPE Drawing of Erythrodes jamesonii by © Dr Leslie Garay
Common Name Jameson's Microchilus [Scottish Chemist and Orchid Enthusiast in Ecuador early 1900's]
Flower Size 1/2" [1.25 cm]
Found in Colombia and Ecuador in very wet montane forests at elevations around 600 to 1300 meters as a miniature sized, warm to cool growing epiphyte or terrestrial with a creeping stem giving rise to a loose rosette of 3 or so, narrowly elliptical, plicate, acute leaves that blooms in the summer on a terminal erect, 6" [15 cm] long, provided with several, loose, pubescent, elongate, triangular, acute sheathing bracts, densely many flowered inflorescence with lanceolate-ovate, acuminate, almost glabrous, , longer than the ovary floral bracts and carrying samall, fl;owers with almost glabrous sepals.
"Very similar to Microchilus roseus but it has sepals that are densely glandular, the petals are obliquely linear-spathulate and the epichile lobules are separated. M jamesonii has almost glabrous sepals, a oblong-sagittate above a narrow base and the epichile lobules are touching each other above the hypochile." Szlachetko & Kolanowska 2017
Synonyms Aspidogyne jamesonii (Garay) Meneguzzo 2012; Erythrodes jamesonii (Garay) Dodson 1994; *Ligeophila jamesonii Garay 1978
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
Flora of Ecuador No 9 225[1]: 274 Garay 1978 drawing fide;
Icones Planetarum Tropicarum Plate 131 Dodson 1980 drawing fide;
Orquideologia Vol 19 #2 pg 149 1994 as E jamesonii;
Native Ecuadorian Orchids Vol 2 Dodson 2001 as E sp #638 pg 306 photo fide;
Orquideas de la Serrania del Baudo Misas Urreta 2006 as Erythrodes sp #228 drawing/photo fide
Orquidário 26: 89 Meneguzzo 2012 as Aspidogyne jamesonii;
Materials to the Orchid Flora of Colombia Vol 1: 390 Szlachetko & Kolanowska 2017 as Ligeophila jamesonii drawing fide;
Materials to the Orchid Flora of Colombia Vol 1: 543 Szlachetko & Kolanowska 2017 as Ligeophila jamesonii photo fide
* Bot. J. Linn. Soc. 197: 340 E.C.Smidt & M.W.Chase 2021
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