Microchilus campanensis Ormerod 2009

TYPE Drawing by © Ormerod and Harvard Pap. Bot. 14[2]: 119 fig 7 Ormerod 2009

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Common Name The Cerro Campana Microchilus [A hill where the orchid was discovered]

Flower Size .12" [3 mm]

Found in San Martin department of Peru at elevations around 600 to 1000 meters as a miniature to small sized, warm growing terrestrial with an erect, terete, leafy stem carrying 4 to 5, obliquely narrowly oblong elliptic, subacuminate, petiolate base leaves that blooms in the late spring on an erect, terminal, pubescent, 13.8" [34.2 cm] long overall, peduncle 9.6 to 10" [19 to 25 cm] long, provided with 5, lax sheathing bracts, rachis 6 " [15 cm] long, sublaxly to densely many flowered inflorescence with subrhombic to ovate-lanceolate, acute to subacuminate, much longer than the ovary floral bracts and carrying externally pubescent, tawny yellow-green tinged with rose flowers.

"This species is somewhat similar to the Ecuadorian M. longiflorus but the flowers have a shorter .12 versus .15" [3 vs. 3.75 mm] spur, an evenly (not inequally) subpandurate, narrower .048 to .076" versus .068 to .088" [1.2 to 1 .80 vs. 1.7 to 2.2 mm] labellum hypochile, and shorter .108 versus .14" [2.7 vs. 3.5 mm] column." Ormerod 2009

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References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;

* Harvard Pap. Bot. 14[2]: 120 Ormerod 2009

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