Microchilus andrei Ormerod 2009

TYPE Drawing by Paul Ormerod and Harvard Pap. Bot. 14: 112 fig 3 Ormerod 2009

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Common Name Andre's Microchilus [French horticulturist and collector mid 1800's]

Flower Size .12" [3 mm]

Found in Nariño department of Colombia along river valleys at elevations around 1000 to 1200 meters as a medium sized, cool growing terrestrial with a terete, erect stem carrying 5 to 6, obliquely elliptic, sub-acuminate, petiolate base leaves that blooms in the late spring on an erect, terminal, pubescent, 7.68" [19.2 cm] long overall, peduncle 4.4" [11 cm] long; provided with 5, lax sheathing bracts, rachis 3.28" [8.2 cm] long, densely many-flowered inflorescence with ovate-lanceolate to subrhombic, subacuminate, whitish, longer than the ovary floral bracts and carrying externally pubescent, cinnamon colored flowers.

"This species approaches the Ecuadorian Microchilus longiflorus in most floral measurements though it differs in having a rectangular (vs. subpandurate) labellum hypochile and not widened (vs. distinctly obovately widened) in the upper half." Ormerod 2009

Synonyms

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;

* Harvard Pap. Bot. 14: 117 Ormerod 2009

Harvard Pap. Bot. 14: 112 fig 3 Ormerod 2009 Drawing fide

Materials to the Orchid Flora of Colombia Vol 1: 306 Szlachetko & Kolanowska 2017 drawing fide

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