Microchilus fuscatus Ormerod 2007

TYPE Drawing by © Paul Ormerod and Harvard Pap. Bot. 11: 159 fig 16 Ormerod 2007

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Common Name The Brownish Microchilus [refers to the flower color]

Flower Size .12" [3 mm]

Found in Panama department of Panama in ridge top forests at elevations around 600 meters as a small sized, warm growing terrestrial with a terete rhizome giving rise to an erect, terete stem carrying 5 to 8, obliquely ovate, acute, drying a midbrown to sooty black above, grayish-brown below, petiolate base leaves that blooms in the later fall on an erect, terminal, pubescent, 6.12 to 6.76” [15.3 to 16.8 cm] long; peduncle 4.08 to 4.96” [10.2 to 12.4 cm] long, 3 to 5, scattered, sheathing bracts, rachis 1.16 to 2.64” [2.9 to 6.6 cm] long, sublaxly 20 to 30 flowered inflorescence with ovate-lanceolate to widely rhombic-ovate, acute, as long as the ovary floral bracts and carrying externally pubescent, white flowers with the epichile and petal apices warm red-brown.

"This species is related to M. tridax but it has flowers with a somewhat more broadly conical spur and broader obliquely oblong-lanceolate petals. In M. tridax the spur is subcylindric-conical and the petals are rather evenly ligulate-oblanceolate and about .04” [1 mm] wide." Ormerod 2007

Synonyms

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;

* Harvard Pap. Bot. 11: 161 Ormerod 2007

Harvard Pap. Bot. 11: 159 fig 16 Ormerod 2007 Drawing fide

Materials to the Orchid Flora of Colombia Vol 1: 267 Szlachetko & Kolanowska 2017 drawing fide;

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