Microchilus chicalensis Ormerod 2008

TYPE Drawing by © Paul Ormerod and Harvard Pap. Bot. 13: 70: fig 19 Ormerod 2008

Common Name The Chical Microchilus [A town in Ecuador where the orchid was collected

Flower Size .08" [2 mm]

Found in the Carchi province of Ecuador on boulders in wet montane forests at elevations around 1200 meters as a small sized, cool growing terrestrial with a erect, terete stem carrying 8, ovate-elliptic to elliptic, subacuminate, petiolate base leaves that blooms in the fall on an erect, terminal, pubescent, 11.92" [29.8 cm] long overall, peduncle 5.6" [12 cm] long, provided with 4, lax sheathing bracts, rachis 7.12" [17.8 cm] long, densely many flowered inflorescence with ovate-elliptic, acute, thin, paleaceous, almost twice as long as the ovary floral bracts and carrying externally sparsely pubescent cream colored flowers.

"This species is related to the Colombian Microchilus erythrodoides but it differs from that entity in its flowers having the labellum hypochile widest at the middle from a weakly subpandurate, medially thickened base, and thence cuneate-rectangular in the apical half. In M. erythrodoides the hypochile is weakly sub-pandurate in overall shape (thus narrowest medially) and it is not thickened medially." Ormerod 2008

Synonyms

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;

* Harvard Pap. Bot. 13: 71 Ormerod 2008

Harvard Pap. Bot. 13: 70 fig 19 Ormerod 2008 drawing fide

Materials to the Orchid Flora of Colombia Vol 1: 323 Szlachetko & Kolanowska 2017 drawing fide;

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