Microchilus anderssonii Ormerod 2008

TYPE Drawing by © Ormerod and Harvard Pap. Bot. 13: 64 fig 12 Ormerod 2008

Common Name Andersson's Microchilus [Danish co-collector of the type current]

Flower Size .12" [3 mm]

Found in Morona-Santiago province of Ecuador in remnant primary forests at elevations around 1600 meters as a small sized, cool growing terrestrial with an erect, terete, 2 noded stem carrying 6, obliquely ovate-elliptic, subcuminate, petiolate base leaves that blooms in the fall on a terminal, erect, pubescent, 11.6" [28.5 cm] long overall, peduncle [20.9 cm] long, provided with 5 sheathing bracts, rachis 7.04" [17.6 cm] long, subdensely many flowered inflorescence with ovate-lanceolate, acute, longer than the ovary floral bracts and carrying externally pubescent flowers with green sepals with white tips and the rest white."

"This species is similar to its Ecuadorian congener M. viridissimus but it has flowers with a broader .072 to .076" versus .052 to .056" (1.8 to 1.9 vs. 1.3 to 1.4 mm) dorsal sepal, longer .112" versus .076 to .08" (2.8 vs. 1.9 to 2 mm) spur, and ovate (not cuneate) labellum hypochile." Ormerod 2008

Synonyms

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;

* Harvard Pap. Bot. 13: 65 Ormerod 2008

Harvard Pap. Bot. 13: 64 fig 12 Ormerod 2008 Drawing fide

Materials to the Orchid Flora of Colombia Vol 1: 303 Szlachetko & Kolanowska 2017 drawing fide

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