Microchilus globosus Ormerod 2005

TYPE Drawing by Paul Ormerod and Harvard Pap. Bot. 9: 407 fig 17 Ormerod 2005

Common Name The Globose Microchilus [refers to the spur shape]

Flower Size .12" [3 mm]

Found in Santander and Norte de Santander departments of Colombia in dense forest or forest margins at elevations around 2000 to 2500 meters as a small sized, cold growing terrestrial with a terete, creeping rhizome giving rise to an erect, terete stem carrying 10, obliquely ovate-lanceolate to ovate-oblong, acute, petiolate base leaves that blooms in the winter on an erect, terminal, pubescent, 4.8 to 10.4" [12 to 26 cm] long, peduncle 3 to 8" [7.5 to 20 cm] long provided with 2 to 3, scattered, semitubular, acute, sheathing bracts, rachis 1.8 to 2.92" [4.5 to 7.3 cm] long, subdensely many flowered inflorescence with ovate-lanceolate, acute, almost twice as long as the ovary floral bracts and carrying glabrous, white, white with green-tinged apices, white with green spur or light pink flowers.

"In habit this species closely resembles Microchilus platysepalus, but it differs from that taxon in having glabrous sepals, a more globose spur, a narrower hypochile, and narrower epichile lobules." Ormerod 2005

Synonyms

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;

* Harvard Pap. Bot. 9: 406 Ormerod 2005

Harvard Pap. Bot. 9: 407 fig 17 Ormerod 2005 drawing fide

Materials to the Orchid Flora of Colombia Vol 1: 249 Szlachetko & Kolanowska 2017 drawing fide;

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