Microchilus elatus (L.O.Williams) E.C.Smidt & M.W.Chase 2021
Drawing by © Foldats
Collection Sheet by © Jany Renz and the Wikipedia Website
Common Name The Beautiful Microchilus
Flower Size .24” [6 mm]
Found in Venezuela and Cauca Department of Colombia at elevations around 2500 to 3200 meters as a large sized, cold growing terrestrial with a decumbent basal becoming erect apically, subdensely leafy stems carrying lanceolate to elliptic-lanceolate, acute to shortly acuminate, shortly petiolate base leaves that blooms in the summer on a terminal, spicate, laxly many flowered inflorescence with membraneous, ovate-lanceolate, acuminate, as long as or shorter than the ovary floral bracts and carrying green to greenish flowers.
"Separated from all species from Colombia in the suborbicular lip with 2 lamellae in the bottom." Szlachetko & Kolanowska 2017
Synonyms *Erythrodes elata L.O.Williams 1941; Kreodanthus elatus (L.O.Williams) Garay 1977
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
Lilloa 7: 242 L O Williams 1941 as Erythrodes elata
Flora de Venezuela Foldats Volumen XV Part 1 1969 as Erythrodes elata drawing fide;
Bradea 2: 199 Garay 1977 as Kreodanthus elatus
Las Orquedias De El Salvador Vol 1 Hamer 1974 as Erythrodes secunda drawing/photo fide;
Materials to the Orchid Flora of Colombia Vol 1: 442 Szlachetko & Kolanowska 2017 as Kreodanthus elatus drawing fide;
* Bot. J. Linn. Soc. 197: 339 E.C.Smidt & M.W.Chasev2021
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