Microchilus fosbergii Ormerod 2005

TYPE Drawing by © Paul Ormerod and Harvard Pap. Bot. 9: 404 fig 15 Ormerod 2005

LATE EARLY

Common Name Fosberg’s Microchilus [American Botanist and Collector of the TYPE 1908 - 1993]

Flower Size .12" [3 mm]

Found in Huila department of Colombia in wet forest on sides of a canyon at elevations around 2200 meters as a small sized, cold growing terrestrial with an erect stem carrying laxly, 5 to 6, ligulate-lanceolate, acute, petiolate base leaves that blooms in the late fall and early winter on an erect, terminal, pubescent, 13.24 to 14.24” [33.1 to 35.6 cm] long; peduncle 9.04” to 10” [22.6 to 25 cm] long, provided with 3 or 4, scattered sheathing bracts, rachis 4.2 to 4.32” [10.5 to 10.8 cm] long, sublaxly 25 to 30 flowered inflorescence with oblong-lanceolate, acute, longer than the ovary floral bracts and carrying white flowers.

"This species is closely related to M platysepalus , but it differs from that taxon in having a labellum with a trilobed (not entire) hypochile and a wider epichile with wider obcuneate lobules." Ormerod 2005

Synonyms

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;

* Harvard Pap. Bot. 9: 405 Ormerod 2005

Harvard Pap. Bot. 9: 404 fig 15 Ormerod 2005 Drawing fide

Materials to the Orchid Flora of Colombia Vol 1: 256 Szlachetko & Kolanowska 2017 drawing fide;

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