Microchilus carchiensis Ormerod 2007

TYPE Drawing by © Paul Ormerod and Harvard Papers in Botany, Vol. 11, No. 2: 156 fig 2 Ormerod 2008

Common Name The Carchi Microchilus [A province of Ecuador where the type was discovered]

Flower Size .04" [1 mm]

Found in Carchi province of Ecuador in humid forests on plateaus at elevations around 1000 meters as a small sized, warm to cool growing terrestrial with an erect, terete stem carrying laxly 5, ovate, acute, petiolate base leaves that blooms in the summer on an erect, terminal, pubescent, 11.36" [28.4 cm] long overall, peduncle 7.52" [18.8 cm] long, provided with 2 to 3, scattered sheathing bracts, rachis 3.84" [9.6 cm] long, laxly, to about 20 flowered inflorescence with ovate-lanceolate, acute, longer than the ovary floral bracts and carrying externally pubescent, white flowers.

"This species is closely related to its Ecuadorian congener M. sparreorum but it differs in having shorter leaves 2.08 to 2.12" versus 2.52 to 3.6" [5.2 to 5.3 vs. 6.3 to 9 cm] and flowers with an obliquely obovoid-ellipsoid straight spur (not a narrowly oblongoid spur in which the apical half is weakly deflexed." Ormerod 2007

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References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;

* Harvard Papers in Botany, Vol. 11, No. 2 155 Ormerod 2007

Harvard Papers in Botany, Vol. 11, No. 2: 156 fig 2 Ormerod 2008 drawing fide;

Materials to the Orchid Flora of Colombia Vol 1: 293 Szlachetko & Kolanowska 2017 drawing fide;

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