Microchilus calophyllus (Rchb.f.) Ormerod 2002
Photo by © Teck H Hia
Drawing by © A Krol/Szlachetko & Kolanowska 2017
Common Name The Beautiful Leafed Microchilus
Flower Size .12" [3 mm]
Found in Costa Rica in forests among boulders and on steep slopes at elevations of 150 to 900 meters as a small to medium sized, hot to warm growing terrestrial with a leafy stem carrying ovate to elliptic-ovate to lanceolate-ovate, shortly acuminate, speckled with pale spots, petiolate base leaves that blooms in the fall and winter on an erect, 10 to 12" [20 to 30 cm] long, several to many flowered inflorescence with lanceolate to elliptic-lanceolate, acuminate, longer than the ovary floral bracts and carrying small flowers with the sepals densely glandular.
"The Colombian species M ortgiesii differs from this species in its shorter spur, .08" versus .2" [2 versus 5 mm], and the lip hypochile that gradually narrows rather than broadens towards the epichile." Ormerod 2002
Synonyms Erythrodes calophylla (Rchb.f.) Ames 1922; *Physurus calophyllus Rchb.f. 1866
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
Beitr. Orchid.-K. C. Amer.: 64 Rchb.f 1866 as Physurus calophyllus
Studies in the family Orchidaceae Vol VII: 68 Ames 1922 as Erythrodes calophylla;
* Lindleyana 17: 216 Ormerod 2002
Manual De Plants De Costa Rica Vol III Hammel, Grayum, Herrera and Zamora 2003 as Erythrodes callophylla;
AOS Bulletin Vol 72 No 4 2003 photo fide;
Materials to the Orchid Flora of Colombia Vol 1: 307 Szlachetko & Kolanowska 2017 drawing fide;
Vanishing Beauty, Native Costa Rican Orchids Vol 2 Lacaena to Pteroglossa Pupulin 2020 photo fide
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