Microchilus carlos-parrae Szlach. & Kolan. 2014

TYPE Drawing by © A Krol Slatchetko & Kolanowskiz

LATER EARLY

Common Name Carlos Parra's Microchilus [Colombian Orchid Enthusiast current]

Flower Size .04" [1 mm]

Found in Boyaca, Santander and Quindio departments of Colombia in premontane forests at elevations around 1750 to 2100 meters as a medium to just large sized, cool to cold growing terrestrial with an erect, terete, delicate, very slender, glandular stem carrying 7, towards the base of the stem, elliptic to oblong-lanceolate, acute, somewhat oblique, petiolate base leaves that blooms in the later spring and early summer on an erect, terminal, 9.2" [23 cm] long overall, peduncle provided with 5, short sheathing bracts, laxly many flowered inflorescence with obliquely ovate, acute, glandular, as long as the ovary floral bracts and carrying flowers of unknown colors.

"This species resembles the Colombian coneger M boyacanus from which it is separable by the narrowly cylindrical spur reaching half the length of the pedicellate ovary versus the spur is slightly shorter han the pedicellate ovary. Moreover both species differ in the lip and the sepal form. The hypochile of M boyacanus is oblong-elliptic, much thickened in the center versus a hypochile that is oblong rectangular and not thickened and its sepals are connate to the lower half versus free sepals." Szlatchetko & Kolanowski 2017

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References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;

*Pl. Biosystems 148: 897 Szlachetko & Kolanowska 2014

Materials to the Orchid Flora of Colombia Vol 1: 365 Szlachetko & Kolanowska 2017 drawing fide;

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