Microchilus callophylloides (Garay) Ormerod 2002
Photo by © Alexander Hirtz
TYPE Drawing by © Dr Leslie Garay
Common Name The Calophyllus-Like Microchilus
Flower Size .2" [5 mm]
Found in Napo province of Ecuador at elevations of 1700 to 1800 meters as a medium sized, cool growing terrestrial with a decumbent to creeping rhizome giving rise to an ascending then erect, glabrous, leafy stem carrying obliquely elliptic, tapering at both ends, acute, subpetiolate base leaves that blooms in the winter on an erect, peduncle to 8" [20 cm] long, straight, sparsely and minutely puberulent, provided with a few sheaths, rachis sparsely puberulent, to 4" [10 cm] long, cylindric, loosely few flowered inflorescence with ovate-lanceolate, acuminate floral bracts and carrying small, greenish-white, sparsely pubescent externally flowers.
"Similar to M preslii but has a considerably shorter spur .088 versus .2" [2.2 versus 5 mm]
Synonyms *Erythrodes callophylloides Garay 1978
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
Fl. Ecuador 9(225: 1): 279 Garay 1978 as Erythrodes callophylloides drawing fide;
* Lindleyana 17: 216 Ormerod 2002
Native Ecuadorian Orchids Vol 3 Dodson 2002 as Erythrodes callophylloides drawing/photo fide;
Materials to the Orchid Flora of Colombia Vol 1: 370 Szlachetko & Kolanowska 2017 drawing fide;
Materials to the Orchid Flora of Colombia Vol 1: 543 pl 108 Szlachetko & Kolanowska 2017 Photo fide;
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