Microchilus guianensis Ormerod 2008

TYPE Drawing by Paul Ormerod and Harvard Pap. Bot. 13: 76 fig 27 Ormerod 2008

LATE EARLY

Common Name The Guyana Microchilus

Flower Size .12" [3 mm]

Found in Guyana along creeks and waterfalls at elevations of 700 to 840 meters as a small sized, warm growing terrestrial with an erect, terete stem carrying 4 to 7, obliquely elliptic, subacuminate, petiolate base leaves that blooms in the late summer and early fall on an erect, terminal, pubescent, 11.08 to 23" [27.7 to 57.5 cm] long, peduncle 6.4 to 21.6" [16 to 24 cm] long, purpish, provided with 4 to 5, green, lax sheathing bracts, rachis 4.68 to 13.28" [11.7 to 33.2 cm] long, sublaxly many flowered inflorescence with ovate-lanceolate to broadly ovate-subrhombic, acute to subacuminate, much longer than the ovary floral bracts and carrying externally pubescent, cream to white flowers.

"This species is closely related to the Venezuelan and Guyanese M. campanulatus but its flowers have broader (.06 to .0.7 versus .044 to 056" [1.5 to 1.75 vs. 1.1 to 1.4 mm) petals and a subtrilobulate (not entire) labellum hypochile." Ormerod 2008

Synonyms

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;

* Harvard Pap. Bot. 13: 77 Ormerod 2008

Harvard Pap. Bot. 13: 76 fig 27 Ormerod 2008 drawing fide

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