Microchilus alzatei Ormerod 2008

TYPE Drawing by © Ormerod and Harvard Pap. Bot. 13: 64 fig 11 Ormerod 2008

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Common Name Alzate's Microchilus [Colombian collector of the type current]

Flower Size .12" [3 mm]

Found in Antioquia department of Colombia at elevations around 800 to 1300 meters as a small sized, warm to cool growing terrestrial with a creeping rhizome giving rise to an erect, terete stem carrying 1 to 2, ovate to ovate-elliptic, subacuminate leaves that blooms in the late spring on an erect, terminal, pubescent, 14.4" [35.5 cm] long, overall, peduncle 8.92" [22.3 cm] long, provided with 4, scattered, upper 3 disintegrated, sheathing bracts, rachis 5.32" [13.3 cm] long, sublaxly many flowered inflorescence with oblong-lanceolate, acute, much longer than the ovary floral bracts and carrying externally pubescent flowers of an unknown color

"This species is somewhat similar to its Colombian congener M . valdivianus but it differs in having flowers with a longer .16" versus .076 to .08" [2.9 vs. 1.9 to 2 mm), narrowly oblongoid (not conical) spur, and obliquely obovate (not shortly elliptic) epichile lobules." Ormerod 2008

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References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;

* Harvard Pap. Bot. 13: 65 Ormerod 2008

Harvard Pap. Bot. 13: 64 fig 11 Ormerod 2008 Drawing fide

Materials to the Orchid Flora of Colombia Vol 1: 318 Szlachetko & Kolanowska 2017

Materials to the Orchid Flora of Colombia Vol 1: 319 Szlachetko & Kolanowska 2017 drawing fide

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