Microchilus cundinamarcae Ormerod 2007

TYPE Drawing by © Paul Ormerod and Harvard Pap. Bot. 11: 159 fig 14 Ormerod 2007

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Common Name The Cundinamarca Microchilus [A department of Colombia where the typespecies was collected]

Flower Size .12" [3 mm]

Found in Cundinamarca department of Colombia in dense shrub forests at elevations around 2400 to 2900 meters as a small sized, cold growing terrestrial with a creeping, terete rhizome giving rise to a terete, erect stem carrying 6, obliquely ovate-elliptic, subacuminate, petiolate base leaves that blooms in the late spring on a terminal, erect, pubescent, to 11.88" [29.7 cm] long, peduncle 7.96" [19.9 cm] long, provided with 4, scattered sheathing bracts, rachis 3.92" [9.8 cm] long, densely many flowered inflorescence with ovate-lanceolate, acute, longer than the ovary floral bracts and carrying externally pubescent, white flowers with a pale green base to the lip and a pale yellow spur.

"This species is somewhat similar to its Colombian congener M. caramantae but it has a more densely-flowered inflorescence, longer floral bracts .6 versus .3 to .4" (15 vs. 7.5 to 10 mm), flowers with a subglobose (not ellipsoid) spur and smaller labellum epichile (2.0-2.1 vs. 3 mm wide." Ormerod 2008

Synonyms

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;

Harvard Pap. Bot. 11: 160 Ormerod 2007

Harvard Pap. Bot. 11: 159 fig 14 Ormerod 2007 Drawing fide

Materials to the Orchid Flora of Colombia Vol 1: 254 Szlachetko & Kolanowska 2017 drawing fide;

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