Microchilus caramantae Ormerod 2007

TYPE Drawing by © Paul Ormerod and Harvard Pap. Bot. 11: 156 fig 9 2007

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Common Name The Caramanta Microchilus [The specific epithet refers to the mountain area where the type material was collected]

Flower Size .04" [1 mm]

Found in Antioquia department of Colombia in montane forests at elevations of 2000 to 2400 meters as a miniature to small sized, cold growing terrestrial with an erect, terete stem carrying laxly, 4 to 6, obliquely ovate-oblong to elliptic, subacuminate, generally undulate margins, petiolate base leaves that blooms in the later summer on an erect, terminal, pubescent, 15.6" [39 cm] long opverall, peduncle 12.8" [32 cm] long, provided with scattered sheathing bracts, rachis 5.48" to 10.2" [13.7 to 25.5 cm] long, sublaxly many flowered inflorescence with ovate-lanceolate, acute, much longer than the ovary floral bracts and carrying externally pubescent flowers of unknown colors.

"This species is somewhat similar to the Colombian M. pseudominor but it has a more laxly flowered inflorescence, flowers with a shorter spur (.072" versus .1" [1.8 vs. 2.5 mm]), oblanceolate (not oblong-ligulate) petals and a labellum with rectangular-cuneate (not subquadrate) epichile lobules." Ormerod 2007

Synonyms

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;

* Harvard Pap. Bot. 11: 155 Ormerod 2007

Harvard Pap. Bot. 11: 156 fig 9 2007 Drawing fide

Materials to the Orchid Flora of Colombia Vol 1: 328 Szlachetko & Kolanowska 2017 drawing fide;

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