Microchilus amazonicus (Garay) E.C.Smidt & M.W.Chase 2021

TYPE Drawing of Ligeophila amazonica by A Krol/Szlachetko & Kolanowska 2017

LATE EARLY

Common Name The Amazonian Microchilus

Flower Size .48" [1.2 cm]

Found in Amazonas state of Venezuela in sloped rainforests at elevations around 1000 to 1200 meters as a small sized, warm to cool growing terrestrial with an erect, terete stem carrying 4, apical, ovate-lanceolate, acute, petiolate base leaves that blooms in the late fall and early winter on an erect, terminal, pubescent, 2" [5 cm] long, sublaxly to 10 flowered inflorescence with ovate-lanceolate, acute, sparsely glandular, a bit longer than the ovary floral bracts and carrying externally sparsely glandular flowers

"This species is easily recognizable by the center of the epichile adorned with 2 parallel keels diverging basally, the lateral lobules of the epichile are linear and widely spread and the ellipsoid-saccate spur." Ormerod 2008

Synonyms Aspidogyne amazonica (Garay) Meneguzzo 2012; Erythrodes amazonica (Garay) Carnevali & Dodson 1993; *Ligeophila amazonica Garay 1977

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;

Bradea 2: 194 Garay 1977 as Ligeophila amazonica

Lindleyana 8: 101 Carnevali & Dodson 1993 as Erythrodes amazonica

Orquidário 26: 89 Meneguzzo 2012 as Aspidogyne amazonica

Materials to the Orchid Flora of Colombia Vol 1: 392 Szlachetko & Kolanowska 2017 as Ligeophila amazonicus drawing fide;

* Bot. J. Linn. Soc. 197: 337 E.C.Smidt & M.W.Chase 2021

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