Microchilus corniculatus (Rchb.f.) E.C.Smidt & M.W.Chase 2021

Collection by © Wright and The EOL Website

EARLY

Common Name The Small Horned Microchilus

Flower Size

Found in western Cuba at elevations around 1500 to 1800 meters as a medium sized, cool growing terrestrial with an ascending, glabrous, distally purberulent stem enveloped by a few sheaths and carrying a few basal, ovate to oblong-lanceolate, acute, gradually narrowing below into the petiolate base leaves that blooms in the winter and early spring on an erect, terminal, short, densely many flowered inflorescence with ovate-lanceolate, acuminate, slightly shorter than the ovary floral bracts.

"Similar to Microchilus plantagineus but the shape of the lip is different, the flowers are green, the lip is green-yellow, and the tip is white, and the column foot is white." Grieseb 1866

Synonyms Erythrodes corniculata (Rchb.f.) Carabia 1943; Goodyera corniculata (Rchb.f.) Ackerman 2012; Kreodanthus corniculatus (Rchb.f.) Garay 1977; *Physurus corniculatus Rchb.f. 1865; Physurus wrightianus Griseb. 1866

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;

Flora 48: 274 Rchb.f 1865 as Physurus corniculatus

Cat. Pl. Cub.: 270 Grieseb. 1866 as Physurus wrightianus

Mem. Soc. Cub. Hist. Nat. ''Felipe Poey'' 17: 146 Carabia 1943 as Erythrodes corniculata

Bradea 2: 198 Garay 1977 as Kreodanthus corniculatus

Orchidaceae Antillanae Nir 2000;

Orchids of Cuba Llamacho & Larramendi 2005;

Smithsonian Contr. Bot. 98: 638 Ackerman 2012 as Goodyera corniculata

Orchid Flora of the Greater Antilles Ackerman 2014 as Goddyera corniculata;

* Bot. J. Linn. Soc. 197: 338 E.C.Smidt & M.W.Chase 2021

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