Microchilus borjaquijosae Ormerod 2007

TYPE Drawing by © Ormerod and Harvard Pap. Bot. 12(2): 153, Fig 8 Ormerod 2009

LATE EARLY

Common Name The Rio Borja and Rio Quijos Microchilus

Flower Size .12" [3 mm]

Found in Napo province of Ecuador in wet riverside forests at elevations around 1770 meters as a small sized, cool growing terrestrial with a terete stem carrying 6, obliquely ovate-elliptic, subacuminate, petiolate base leaves that blooms in the late winter and early spring on a terminal, erect, pubescent, 21.32" [53.3 cm] long overall, peduncle [32.1 cm] long, provided with 5?, scattered sheathing bracts, rachis 8.5" [21.2 cm] long, laxly many flowered inflorescence with ovate-lanceolate, acute, longer than the ovary floral bracts and carrying externally pubescent flowers of unknown colors.

"This species is closely related to its Ecuadorian congener M. pseudobrunnescens but it differs in having a longer inflorescence peduncle 12.84" versus 8.8" [32.1 vs. 22 cm], flowers with a labellum hypochile of different dimensions .08 x .052 to .072" versus .1 x .048 to .06" [2 x 1.4 to 1.8 vs. 2.5 x 1.2 to 1.5 mm] and a narrower epichile .104 versus .12" [2.6 vs. 3 mm]." Ormerod 2007

Synonyms

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;

* Harvard Pap. Bot. 112): 155 Ormerod 2009

Harvard Pap. Bot. 12(2): 153, Fig 8 Ormerod 2009 drawing fide;

Materials to the Orchid Flora of Colombia Vol 1: 363 Szlachetko & Kolanowska 2017 drawing fide

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