Microchilus frontinoensis Ormerod 2008

TYPE Drawing by © Paul Ormerod and Harvard Pap. Bot. 13: 73 Ormerod 2008

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Common Name The Frontino Microchilus [an area of northwestern Antioquia]

Flower Size .12" [3 mm]

Found in Antioquia department of Colombia in montane forests at elevations around 1990 meters as a small sized, cool to cold growing terrestrial with an erect, terete stem carrying 5 to 6, lanceolate, acute, petiolate base leaves that blooms in the later fall on an erect, terminal, pubescent, 9.64 to 11.64” [24.1 to 29.1 cm] long overall, peduncle 4.4 to 4.72” [11 to 11.8 cm] long, provided with 4, lax, sheathing bracts, rachis 2.92 to 6.92” [7.8 to 17.3 cm] long, laxly many-flowered inflorescence with ovate-lanceolate, acute, almost twice as long as the ovary floral bracts and carrying externally pubescent flowers with white on the basal quarter of the sepals.

"This species is related to M. microcalcar, also from the Department of Antioquia. However M . frontinoensis differs in having flowers with an obovoid (not subglobose) spur, a broader dorsal sepal .06 versus .04” (1.5 vs. 1 mm) , and a larger labellum hypochile." Ormerod 2008

Synonyms

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;

* Harvard Pap. Bot. 13: 74 Ormerod 2008

Harvard Pap. Bot. 13: 73 Ormerod 2008 Drawing fide

Materials to the Orchid Flora of Colombia Vol 1: 252 Szlachetko & Kolanowska 2017 drawing fide;

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