Microchilus haughtii Ormerod 2005

TYPE Drawing by Paul Ormerod and Harvard Pap. Bot. 9: 407 fig 18 Ormerod 2005

LATE EARLY

Common Name Haught's Microchilus [American Collector of the type 1900's]

Flower Size .12" [3 mm]

Found in Cesar department of Colombia in damp forests at elevations around 1700 meters as a small to medium sized, cool growing terrestrial with a creeping, terete rhizome giving rise to an erect stem carrying 8, laxly, obliquely ovate-lanceolate, subacuminate, petiolate base leaves that blooms in the late winter and early spring on an erect, terminal, minutely pubescent, 12" [30 cm] long, peduncle 7.4 to 7.6" [19.5 cm] long provided with 5, ovate-lanceolate, acute sheathing bracts, rachis 4.2" [10.5 cm] long, laxly many flowered inflorescence with ovate-lanceolate, acute, longer than the the ovary floral bracts and carrying externally lax to sparsely pubescent white flowers.

"It is difficult to determine the relationships of this species, though it does bear some superficial similarity to the Venezuelan M curviflorus and the Colombian M. pseudominor. It differs from both of these taxa in having flowers with an ovate hypochile and an epichile with a prominent pair of medial folds that resemble calli." Ormerod 2005

Synonyms

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;

* Harvard Pap. Bot. 9: 408 Ormerod 2005

Harvard Pap. Bot. 9: 407 fig 18 Ormerod 2005 drawing fide;

Materials to the Orchid Flora of Colombia Vol 1: 366 Szlachetko & Kolanowska 2017 drawing fide;

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