Microchilus astilleroensis Ormerod 2009

TYPE Drawing by © Ormerod and Harvard Pap. Bot. 14(2): 119 fig 6 Ormerod 2009

LATE EARLY

Common Name The Astilleros Microchilus [a town in Junin Department of Peru]

Flower Size .12" [3 mm]

Found in Junin department of Peru in much disturbed remnants of primary rainforests at elevations around 2020 meters as a small sized, cold growing terrestrial with a terete rhizome giving rise to an erect, terete, leafy stem carrying 8, obliquely oblong-elliptic to elliptic, subacuminate, petiolate base leaves that blooms in the late winter and early spring on a pubescent, 16.28" [40.7 cm] long overall, peduncle 11.8" [29.5 cm] long, provided with 8, upper 3 to 4 bractiform sheathing bracts, rachis 4.48" [11.2 cm] long; subdensely many-flowered inflorescence with ovate-lanceolate, subacuminate, much longer than the ovary floral bracts and carrying externally pubescent flowers of an unknown color.

"This species is somewhat similar to its Peruvian congener Microchilus lechleri , but it differs in its flowers having a shorter .01 versus .16 to .172" (2.5 vs. 4. to 4.3 mm) spur and a wider .068 to .076" versus .042 to .06" (1.75 to 1.9 vs. 1.25 to 1.5 mm) labellum hypochile." Ormerod 2009

Synonyms

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;

* Harvard Pap. Bot. 14(2): 118 Ormerod 2009

* Harvard Pap. Bot. 14(2): 119, fig 6. Ormerod 2009 drawing fide;

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