Microchilus ibaguensis Ormerod 2009

TYPE Drawing by Paul Ormerod and Harvard Pap. Bot. 14: 122 fig 11 Ormerod 2009

Common Name The Ibague Microchilus [a City in Tolima Colombia]

Flower Size .12" [3 mm]

Found in Tolima department of Colombia in riverine forests at elevations around 1200 to 1300 meters as a medium sized, cool growing terrestrial with an erect, terete stem carrying up to 6, obliquely elliptic, subacuminate, petiolate base leaves that blooms in the winter on an erect, terminal, pubescent, 9.44 to 16.16" " [23.6 to 40.6 cm] long, peduncle 7.32 to 9.88" [17.3 to 24.7 cm] long provided with a few sheathing bracts, rachis 2.56 to 6.36" to 4.88" [6.3 to 15.9 cm] long, densely many flowered inflorescence with ovate-lanceolate to subrhombic, subacuminate, paleaceous, almost to more than twice longer than the the ovary floral bracts and carrying externally pubescent flowers with unknown colors.

"This species is closely related to Microchilus erythrodoides , also from the department of Tolima, Colombia. From the latter taxon it may be distinguished by its longer 7.32 to 9.88" versus 5.08" to 6" [17.3 to 24.7 vs. 12.7 to 15 cm] peduncle, longer .048 to .076" versus .038 to .048" [12 to 19 vs. 9.5 to 12 mm] floral bracts, flowers with falcate, truncate (not patent, obtuse) epichile lobules, and slightly shorter .128 versus 1.36" [3.1 vs. 3.4 mm] column." Ormerod 2009

Synonyms

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;

* Harvard Pap. Bot. 14: 123 Ormerod 2009

Harvard Pap. Bot. 14: 122 fig 11 Ormerod 2009 drawing fide;

Materials to the Orchid Flora of Colombia Vol 1: 315 Szlachetko & Kolanowska 2017 drawing fide;

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