Microchilus fimbrillaris (Lindl.) E.C.Smidt & M.W.Chase 2021
Photo by © Dalton Holland Baptista
Photo by © Eric Hunt
Drawing by © Hoehne
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Common Name The Fimbriate Microchilus
Flower Size .36" [9 mm]
Found in Rio de Janiero, Sao Paulo, Parana and Santa Catarina states of Brazil as a small sized, cool growing terrestrial orchid with spaced in a whorl going up the stem, silver on pale green, elliptic to elliptic-lanceolate, acute abruptly narrowing below into the petiolate base leaves leaves and blooms in the later spring on an erect, several flowered inflorescence with well spaced lanceolate, acute bracts and shorter than the ovary floral bracts and carrying small flowers.
Synonyms Aspidogyne fimbrillaris (B.S.Williams ex Buyss.) Garay 1977; Aspidogyne nobilis (Rchb.f.) Baptista 2005; Aspidogyne nobilis var. argyrocentra (Hoehne) J.M.H.Shaw 2013; Erythrodes nobilis (Rchb.f.) Pabst 1956; Erythrodes nobilis var. argyrocentra (Hoehne) Pabst 1972; *Physurus fimbrillaris Lindley 1861; Physurus nobilis Rchb.f. 1873; Physurus nobilis var argyrocentrus Hoehne 1945
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
Gard. Chron. 1861: 926 Lindley 1861 as Physurus fimbrillaris
Gard. Chron. 1873: 177 Rchb.f 1873 as Physurus nobilis
Flora Brasilica Vol XII II 13-43: 359 Hoehne 1945 as Physurus nobilis
Flora Brasilica Vol XII II 13-43: tab 198 fig 1 Hoehne 1945 as Physurus nobilis drawing fide;
Flora Brasilica Vol XII II 13-43: 360 Hoehne 1945 as Physurus nobilis var argyrocentrus
Flora Brasilica Vol XII II 13-43: tab 198 fig 2 Hoehne 1945 as Physurus nobilis var argyrocentrus drawing fide;
Iconographia de Orchidaceae Do Brasil Hoehne 1949 as Physurus nobilis var argyrocentrus;
Sellowia 7: 176 Pasbst 1956 as Erythrodes nobilis
AOS Bulletin Vol 31 No 2 1962 as Erythrodes nobilis var argyrocentrum photo good;
Fl. Analit. Fitogeogr. São Paulo 6: 1279 Pabst 1972 as Erythrodes nobilis var. argyrocentra
Orchidaceae Brasilensis Vol 1: 131 Pabst & Dungs 1975 as Erythrodes nobilis
Orchidaceae Brasilensis Vol 1: 288 fig 530 Pabst & Dungs 1975 as Erythrodes nobilis drawing ok;
Bradea 2: 203 Garay 1977 as Aspidogyne fimbrillaris
Bol. CAOB 58: 50 Baptista 2005 as Aspidogyne nobilis
Orchid Rev. 121(1304, Suppl.): 76 J M H Shaw 2013 as Aspidogyne nobilis var. argyrocentra
AOS Bulletin Vol 83 #11 2014 as A fimbrillaris var argyrocentrus photo fide;
Orchidees du Bresil As Orquideas da Serra Do Castelo Vol 1 Chiron & Bolsanello 2015 drawing/photo good
* Bot. J. Linn. Soc. 197: 339 E.C.Smidt & M.W.Chase 2021
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