Microchilus aspidogynoides Ormerod 2009

TYPE Drawing by © Ormerod and The Epidendra Website

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Common Name The Asdpidogyne-Like Microchilus

Flower Size .08" 2 mm]

Found in Valle de Cauca department of Colombia in humid forests at elevations around 200 to 500 meters as a small sized, hot growing terrestrial with an erect, terete, leafy stem carrying 5, obliquely oblong to oblong-elliptic, subacuminate, petiolate base leaves that blooms in the later spring on a pubescent, to 14.8" [35.2 cm] long overall, peduncle to 7.48" [18.7 cm] long, provided with 7 or more sheathing bracts, rachis to 7" [17.5 cm] long, densely many flowered inflorescence with lanceolate, acute, much longer than the ovary floral bracts and carrying externally pubescent flowers.

"This species is somewhat similar to its Colombian congener M dolichostachys except it has longer 4.4 to 4.8" versus 2 to 3.2" (11 to 12 vs. 5 to 8 cm) leaves, a densely (not laxly), many-flowered inflorescence, and flowers with a longer .113 versus .06" (2.8 vs. 1.5 mm) spur and subrhombic (not transversely ligulate) labellum epichile." Ormerod 2009

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References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;

* Harvard Pap. Bot. 14(2): 118 Ormerod 2009 Harvard Pap. Bot. 14(2): 119 fig 5 Ormerod 2009 drawing fide;

Orchids of the Department of Valle del Cauca Vol 1 Kolanowski & Szlachetko 2012 drawing ok;

*Materials to the Orchid Flora of Colombia Vol 1: 331 Szlachetko & Kolanowska 2017 drawing fide

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