Microchilus roseus (Lindl.) D.Dietr. 1852
Photos by © Ricardo Luis Penz and his Orchid Website
Drawing by © A Krol/Szlachetko & Kolanowska 2017
Common Name The Rose-Colored Microchilus
Flower Size .2" [5 mm]
Found in Choco, Santander and Amazonas departments of Colombia, Ecuador, Huanuco department of Peru, Surinam?, Minas Gerais state of Brazil, Paraguay and Argentina in forests at elevations of 210 to 700 meters as a large sized, hot to warm growing terrestrial with an erect, stout, glabrous below and densely pubescent above, leafy stem the leaves carrying 5 to 10, elliptic-lanceolate to ovate-lanceolate, acute to acuminate, gradually tapering below into the short, broad petiolate base leaves that blooms in the summer on a terminal, erect, elongate, 10" [25 cm] long, cylindric, densely many flowered inflorescence with ovate-lanceolate to lanceolate, acuminate, sparsely glandular, short to a bit longer than the ovary floral bracts and carrying small, pale rose to white, successively opening flowers.
" Microchilus jamesonii is very similar to M rosea but diffres from the later by having almost glabrous sepals versus sepals densely glandular outside. Additionally the petals of M jamesonii are oblong-sagittate above a narrow base versus obliquely linear-spathulate and the epipchile lobules are touching each other above the hypochile versus separated lobules." Szlachetko & Kolanowska 2017
Synonyms Aspidogyne rosea (Lindl.) Meneguzzo 2012; Erythrodes bifalcis (Lindl.) Ames 1922; Erythrodes rosea (Lindl.) Ames 1922; Erythrodes valida (Rolfe) Ames 1922; Ligeophila rosea (Lindl.) Garay 1977; Microchilus bifalcis (Lindl.) D.Dietr. 1852; Physurus bifalcis Lindl. 1840; *Physurus roseus Lindl. 1840; Physurus roseus var. angustioflius Cogn. 1895; Physurus validus Rolfe 1912
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
Gen. Sp. Orchid. Pl.: 501 Lindley 1840 as Physurus rosea
Gen. Sp. Orchid. Pl.: 502 Lindley 1840 as Physurus bifalcis;
* Syn. Plant. 5: 166 D Dietr 1852
Syn. Plant. 5: 166 D Dietr 1852 as M biflacis
Fl. Bras. 3(4): 230 Cogniaux 1895 as Physurus roseus
Fl. Bras. 3(4): 230 Cogniaux 1895 as Physurus roseus var. angustioflius
Bull. Misc. Inform. Kew 1912: 134 Rolfe 1912 as Physurus validus
Studies in the family Orchidaceae Vol VII: 67 Ames 1922 as Erythrodes bifalcis;
Studies in the family Orchidaceae Vol VII: 75 Ames 1922 as Erythrodes rosea;
Studies in the family Orchidaceae Vol VII: 78 Ames 1922 as Erythrodes valida;
Flora Brasilica Fasc 8 Vol XIL II 13-43: 343 1945 as Physurus roseus; Flora Brasilica Fasc 8 Vol XIL II 13-43 : 343 1945
Flora Brasilica Fasc 8 Vol XIL II 13-43: 343 1945 as Physurus roseus; Flora Brasilica Fasc 8 Vol XIL II 13-43 : 343 1945
Orchids of Peru Vol 1: 152 Schweinfurth 1958 as Erythrodes bifalcis;
Orchids of Peru Vol 1: 163 Schweinfurth 1958 as Erythrodes valida;
Orchidaceae Brasilensis Vol 1: 131 Pabst & Dungs 1975 as Erythrodes rosea
Orchidaceae Brasilensis Vol 1: 287 fig 51`6 Pabst & Dungs 1975 as Erythrodes rosea drawing fide;
Bradea 2: 195 Garay 1977 as Ligeophila rosea;
Flora of Ecuador No 9 225[1] Garay 1978 drawing good;
Native Ecuadorian Orchids Vol 2 Dodson 2001 as Erythrodes rosea drawing fide;
Genera Orchidacearum Vol 3 Orchiodeae Part 2 Pridgeon, Cribb, Chase & Rasmussen 2003 drawing not = Microchilus hughjonesii Ormerod 2005
Orquidário 26: 90 Meneguzzo 2012 as Aspidogyne rosea;
Materials to the Orchid Flora of Colombia Vol 1: 391 Szlachetko & Kolanowska 2017 as Ligeophila rosea drawing fide;
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