Microchilus forceps (Ormerod) Ormerod 2007
Photo by Alexander Hirtz/Doson 2001
TYPE Drawing of Kreodanthus forceps by © Paul Ormerod and Harvard Pap. Bot. 9: 393 fig 2 Ormerod 2005
Common Name The Plier Like Microchilus [refers to the deeply bifid rostellum?]
Flower Size .12" [3 mm]
Found in Ecuador without locality as a small sized terrestrial with a terete, elongate rhizome giving rise to an erect stem carrying laxly, 6, ovate to ovate-lanceolate, subacuminate leaves that blooms on an erect, terminal, pubescent, 6.52" [16.3 cm] long (immature) overall; peduncle 2.12" [5.3 cm] long; rachis 4.4" [11 cm] long, laxly flowered inflorescence with lanceolate, acute, longer than the ovary floral bracts and carrying externally pubescent flowers.
"K. forceps is like the other Ecuadorian taxa Microchilus ecuadorensis and Microchilus crispifolius in habit, but it differs from these in having a trilobed labellum and a rostellum that is deeply bifid (like in Microchilus) after removal of the pollinarium. The novelty M rotundifolius also has a trilobed labellum, but it differs from all other taxa in the genus in having short stems with approximate leaves." Ormerod 200
Synonyms *Kreodanthus forceps Ormerod 2005
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
Native Ecuadorian Orchids Vol 2 pg: 309 Fig 640 Dodson 2001 as Erythrodes sp. photo fide
Harvard Pap. Bot. 9: 392 Ormerod 2005 as Kreodanthus forceps
Harvard Pap. Bot. 9: 393 fig 2 Ormerod 2005 as Kreodanthus forceps Drawing fide
* Harvard Pap. Bot. 11: 160 Ormerod 2007
Materials to the Orchid Flora of Colombia Vol 1: 339 Szlachetko & Kolanowska 2017 drawing fide;
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