Microchilus ceratostele Ormerod 2008
TYPE Drawing by © Paul Ormerod and Harvard Pap. Bot. 13: 70 fig 18 Ormerod 2008
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Common Name The Horn-Like Column Microchilus
Flower Size .06" [1.5 cm]
Found in the Galapagos Islands of Ecuador at elevations of sealevel to 600 meters as a miniature to small sized, hot to warm growing terrestrial with a creeping rhizome giving rise to an lower half recumbent upper half erect, terete stem carrying laxly 4 to 5, obliquely lanceolate, acute, petiolate base leaves that blooms in the late summer and early fall on an erect, terminal, pubescent, 5.36" [13.4 cm] long overall, peduncle 3.76" [9.4 cm] long, provided with 3, lax, sheathing bracts, rachis 1.6" [4 cm] long, sublaxly to 15 flowered inflorecence with ovate-lanceolate, acute, as long as the ovary floral bracts and carrying externally sparsely pubecent flowers in the lower half of the sepals and with unknown colors.
"This species is related to its Galapagos Island congener Microchilus weberianus but it has lanceolate (not ovate to ovate-lanceolate) leaves, a sublaxly (not subdensely) flowered inflorescence, flowers with petals that have laterally and subapically reflexed margins (not unreflexed margins), and a labellum with an oblongoid (not broadly conical) spur." Ormerod 2008
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References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
* Harvard Pap. Bot. 13: 69 Ormerod 2008
Harvard Pap. Bot. 13: 70 fig 18 Ormerod 2008 drawing fide
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