Microchilus bangii Ormerod 2008

TYPE Drawing by © Ormerod and Harvard Pap. Bot. 13: 68 fig 14 Ormerod 2008

Common Name Bang's Microchilus [Danish Collector of the type 1853 - 1895]

Flower Size .12" [3 mm]

Found in Bolivia without location as a small sized terrestrial with an erect, terete, leafy stem carrying 6, obliquely ovate-lanceolate to narrowly elliptic, subacuminate, petiolate base leaves that blooms on a pubescent, erect, terminal, 20.68" [51.7 cm] long overall, peduncle 12.24" [30.6 cm] long, provided with 2 to 3+, sheathing bracts, rachis 8.44" [21.1 cm] long, sub densely many flowered inflorescence with ovate-lanceolate, shortly setaceous, much longer than the ovary floral bracts and carrying externally pubescent flowers of unknown color.

"This entity appears to be a sister species of its Bolivian congener M. buchtienii but it is a less robust plant about 24" [60 cm] not 36" [90 cm]tall in flower with more slender .16 to .24" versus .32 to .4" [4 to 6 vs. 8 to 10 mm] thick stems, shorter 2.4 to 4.36" versus 8" [6.0 to 10.9 vs. 20 cm] leaves, shorter 12.24 versus 16.68" [30.6 vs. 41.7 cm] inflorescence peduncle, shortly (not longly) setaceous floral bracts, flowers with a broadly rounded (not subtruncate) spur, and a wider .048 to .076 versus .052 to .064" [1.2 to 1.9 vs. 1.3 to 1.6 mm] labellum hypochile." Ormerod 2008

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References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;

* Harvard Pap. Bot. 13: 66 Ormerod 2008

Harvard Pap. Bot. 13: 68 fig 14 Ormerod 2008 drawing fide;

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