Microchilus dryanderae Ormerod 2009

TYPE Drawing by © Paul Ormerod and Taiwania 54: 48 Ormerod 2009 The Notulae Goodyerinae IV

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Common Name Mrs. Dryander's Microchilus [American Original Collector of species 1900's]

Flower Size .12" [3 mm]

Found in Valle del Cauca department of Colombia at elevations around 2000 meters as a small sized, cool to cold growing terrestrial with an erect, terete stem carrying 4, obliquely ovate-lanceolate , subacuminate, narrowing below into the petiolate base leaves that blooms in the later spring on an erect, pubescent, 20.6" [51.5 cm] long overall, peduncle to 9.8" [24.5 cm] long, stout, 7 bracted, rachis to 10.8" [to 27 cm] long, sublaxly many flowered inflorescence with lanceolate, acute, almost twice as long as the ovary floral bracts and carrying externally pubescent flowers, color not known.

"Similar to M pseudominor but it differs in the obliquely ovate-lanceolate epichile lobules versus in M dryanerae they are subquadrate. M dryanerae has a similar lip form to Microchilus bravocollinus with the hypochile more or less three lobed with the lateral lobes ovate-lanceolate to triangular-ovate, acute, directed forwards forming a kind of furculus. The middle lobe or apiculus is much smaller, and sometimes obscure. The flowers of M dryandrae are prominently smaller than in M brovocollinus and have shorter and narrower segments and a spur half as long" Szlachetko & Kolanowska 2017

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References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;

* Taiwania 54: 48 Ormerod 2009 drawing fide;

Orchids of the Department of Valle del Cauca Vol 1 Kolanowski & Szlachetko 2012 drawing fie;

Materials to the Orchid Flora of Colombia Vol 1: 284 Szlachetko & Kolanowska 2017 drawing fide;

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