Microchilus bugabae (Ormerod) E.C.Smidt & M.W.Chase 2021
TYPE Drawing of Kreodanthus bugabae by © Ormerod and Harvard Pap. Bot. 13(1): 56, Fig 15 Ormerod 2009
Collection Sheet by © Hendrik Werff and The EOL Website
Common Name The Bugaba Microchilus [A town in Chiriqui Province of Panama]
Flower Size .12" [3 mm]
Found in western Panama in wet montane forests at elevations around 2200 meters as a medium sized, cold growing terrestrial with a terete, erect, once branching in upper part of stem carrying laxly, 6 to 9, obiquely ovate, acute, wavy margins, petiolate base leaves that blooms in the winter on an erect, terminal, 12.28 to 15.4" [30.7 to 38.5 cm] long overall, peduncle 4.2 to 4.68" [10.5 to 11.7 cm] long, provided with 2 sheathing bracts, rachis 4.4 to 6.4" [11 to 16 cm] long, laxly many flowered inflorescence with ovate-rhombic, acute, longer than the ovary floral bracts and carrying, greenish-white, glabrous flowers
" This species is similar to the Costa Rican M curvatus but it has flowers with an obovate-elliptic (not oblong-ligulate) dorsal sepal, a broadly obovate (not rhombic) labellum hypochile, and a longer .011" versus .076 to .08" [2.75 vs. 1.9 to 2 mm] column." Ormerod 2008
"M bugabae is also somewhat similar to Microchilus crispifolius and Microchilus sytsmae In contrast to M crispifolius the leaf margins of M bugabae are wavy versus crispate and the lip is broadly obovate versus suborbicular to transversely elliptic. M systamae has much smaller flowers with a prominently shorter spur than M bugabae." Szlachetko & Kolanowska 2017
Synonyms *Kreodanthus bugabae Ormerod 2008
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
Harvard Pap. Bot. 13:[1] 59 Ormerod 2008 as Kreodanthus bugabae
Harvard Pap. Bot. 13(1): 56, Fig 15 Ormerod 2009 as Kreodanthus bugabae drawing fide
Materials to the Orchid Flora of Colombia Vol 1: 440 Szlachetko & Kolanowska 2017 as Kreodanthus bugabae; drawing fide;
* Bot. J. Linn. Soc. 197: 338 E.C.Smidt & M.W.Chase 2021
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