Microchilus goaltalensis (Ormerod) E.C.Smidt & M.W.Chase 2021

TYPE Drawing of Aspidogyne goaltalensis by Paul Ormerod and Harvard Pap. Bot. 13: 57 fig 2 Ormerod 2008

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Common Name The Goaltal Mountain Microchilus [refers to the mountain also known as El Pailon]

Flower Size .12" [3 mm]

Found in Carchi province of Ecuador at elevations of 1200 to 1250 meters in primary wet forest to pluvial permontane forests as a small to just medium sized, cool growing terrestrial with an erect, sometimes decumbent stem carrying 8, glossy dark green above, paler beneath, obliquely ovate-lanceolate, acute to subacuminate, petiolate base leaves that blooms in the late fall on an erect, terminal, pubescent, 10.04" [25.1 cm] long, peduncle 7.4 to 7.6" [18.2 to 18.7 cm] long provided with 4 to 5, lax, sheathing bracts, rachis 2.56" [6.4 cm] long, laxly 9 flowered inflorescence with ovate-lanceolate, acute, as long as the ovary floral bracts and carrying externally laxly pubescent white flowers with a green spur.

"This species is related to M xystophylloides but it differs from it by having broader (up to .802" versus .32" [2.05 vs .8 cm wide]) leaves and flowers with broader (.056 versus .04" [1.4 vs. 1 mm]), acute (not obtuse) petals." Ormerod 2008

Synonyms *Aspidogyne goaltalensis Ormerod 2008

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;

Harvard Pap. Bot. 13: 57 Ormerod 2008 as Aspidogyne goaltalensis

Harvard Pap. Bot. 13: 56 fig2 Ormerod 2008 as Aspidogyne goaltalensis drawing fide

Materials to the Orchid Flora of Colombia Vol 1: 430 Szlachetko & Kolanowska 2017 as Aspidogyne goaltalensis drawing fide;

* Bot. J. Linn. Soc. 197: 340 E.C.Smidt & M.W.Chase 2021

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