Microchilus austrobrasiliensis (Porsch) Ormerod 2002
Photos by © Eric C. Smidt and Bot. J. Linn. Soc. 197: 337 2021
Drawing by © Hoehne and The Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria Website
Common Name The Southern Brazil Microchilus
Flower Size .36" [9mm]
Found in southern and southeastern Brazil at elevations around 200 to 1000 meters as a medium sized, hot to waarm growing terrestrial with quasi-rosulate, narrowly ovate, to ovate-lanceolate, acute, rounded base, shortly pseudopetiolate base leaves that blooms in the summer and fall on a terminal, erect, many sheathed, 8" [20 cm] long overall, rachis .6 to 1.6" [1.5 to 4 cm] long, densely many flowered inflorescence with erect-patent, somewhat concave, pale green, linear-ligulate, long acuminate, glabrous to slightly puberulent floral bracts.
Synonyms Erythrodes austrobrasiliensis (Porsch) Pabst 1957; *Physurus austrobrasiliensis Porsch 1905; Physurus ulaei Cogn. 1906
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
Oesterr. Bot. Z. 55: 152 Porsch 1905 as Physurus austrobrasiliensis;
Fl. Bras. 3(6): 548 Cogniaux 1906 as Physurus ulaei
Fl. Bras. 3(6): Tab 113 Cogniaux 1906 as Physurus ulaei drawing fide
Flora Brasilica Vol XII II 13-43: 356 Hoehne 1945 as Physurus austrobrasiliensis
Flora Brasilica Vol XII II 13-43: tab 194 Hoehne 1945 as Physurus austrobrasiliensis drawing fide; Orquídea (Rio de Janeiro) 18: 213 Pabst 1957 as Erythrodes austrobrasiliensis
Orchidaceae Brasilensis Vol 1: 131 Pabst & Dungs 1975 as Erythrodes austrobrasilensis
Orchidaceae Brasilensis Vol 1: 286 fig 506 Pabst & Dungs 1975 as Erythrodes austrobrasilensis drawing fide;
* Lindleyana 17: 216 Ormerod 2002
Orchidees du Bresil As Orquideas da Serra Do Castelo Vol 1 Chiron & Bolsanello 2015 drawing fide;
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