Microchilus curvatus (Ormerod) E.C.Smidt & M.W.Chase 2021

TYPE Drawing by © Paul Ormerod and Harvard Pap. Bot. 13: 60 fig 6Ormerod 2007

Common Name The Curved Microchilus []

Flower Size .12" [3 mm]

Found in Heridia province of Costa Rica in primary and elfin forests at elevations around 2400 to 2800 meters as a small sized, cold growing terrestrial with a creeping, terete rhizome giving rise to a terete, lower 2/3 decumbent becoming erect stem carrying laxly 5 to 7, obliquely ovate to ovate-lanceolate, acute, margins minutely wavy, petiolate base leaves that blooms in the spring on a terminal, erect, 6.4 to 8" [16 to 20 cm] long, peduncle 3 to 3.96" [7.5 to 9.9 cm] long, provided with 4, scattered sheathing bracts, rachis 2.48 to 2.96" [6.2 to 7.4 cm] long, laxly 15 to 20 flowered inflorescence with broadly rhombic, acute, somewhat longer than the ovary floral bracts and carrying glabrous, pale greenish to green with the lip possibly tawny brown.

"This species is similar to the Panamanian Microchilus bugabae but its flowers have an oblong- ligulate (not obovate-elliptic) dorsal sepal, a rhombic (not late obovate) labellum hypochile, and shorter .076 to .08" versus 1.08" (1.9 to 2 vs. 2.75 mm) column." Ormerod 2008

Synonyms *Kreodanthus curvatus Ormerod 2008

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;

Harvard Pap. Bot. 13: 61 Ormerod 2008 as Kreodanthus curvatus

Harvard Pap. Bot. 13: fig 6 Ormerod 2008 as Kreodanthus curvatus Drawing fide

Materials to the Orchid Flora of Colombia Vol 1: 440 Szlachetko & Kolanowska 2017 as Kreodanthus curvatus; drawing fide;

* Bot. J. Linn. Soc. 197: 339 E.C.Smidt & M.W.Chase 2021

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