Microchilus ensicalcar Ormerod 2005

TYPE Drawing by © Paul Ormerod and Harvard Pap. Bot. 9: 404 fig 13 Ormerod 2005

Common Name The Sword-Shaped Spur Microchilus

Flower Size .12" [3 mm]

Found in Cusco department of Peru in montane forests at elevations around 1040 meters as a miniature to small sized, cool growing terrestrial with an erect, terete stem carrying laxly, 5, in the upper 2/3, 2 to 3 withered in the lower 1/3, lanceolate, acute, with a white median stripe, petiolate base leaves that blooms in the winter on an erect, terminal, pubescent, 5.04" to 5.72" [12.6 to 14.8 cm] long; peduncle 2.92 to 3.52" [7.3 to 8.8 cm] long; provided with scattered sheathing bracts, rachis 2.12 to 2.4" [5.3 to 6 cm] long, sublaxly 20 to 30 flowered inflorescence with lanceolate to ovate- lanceolate, acute, longer than the ovary floral bracts and carrying externally pubescent, white flowers.

"Related to M. microcaprinus but with a longer and narrower spur, with the hypochile connate to the basal sides of the column for less distance, broader epichile lobules, and a longer column." Ormerod 2005

Synonyms

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;

*Harvard Pap. Bot. 9: 403 Ormerod 2005 Drawing fide

Harvard Pap. Bot. 9: 404 fig 13 Ormerod 2005

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