Microchilus integer Ormerod 2005

TYPE Drawing by Paul Ormerod and Harvard Pap. Bot. 9: 406 fig 20 Ormerod 2005

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Common Name The Entire Lip Microchilus

Flower Size .12" [3 mm]

Found in Esmeralda province of Ecuador in mature, premontane, wet forests at elevations around 400 to 600 meters as a small to medium sized, hot to warm growing terrestrial with a terete rhizome giving rise to an erect, terete stem carrying 6 to 7, obliquely elliptic, acuminate, petiolate base leaves that blooms in the late spring on an erect, terminal, pubescent, 13.92" [34.2 cm] long, peduncle 8.6" [21.5 cm] long, provided with a sheathing bract, rachis 5.08" [12.7 cm] long, subdensely about 50 flowered inflorescence with lanceolate, acute, shorter than the ovary floral bracts and carrying appearing glabrous but possibly sparsely externally pubescent white flowers.

"Distinguished from all other Andean species in having an entire (not trilobed) labellum." Ormerod 2005

Synonyms

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;

* Harvard Pap. Bot. 9: 409 Ormerod 2005 as M integrus

Harvard Pap. Bot. 9: 406 fig 20 Ormerod 2005 as M integrus drawing fide;

Materials to the Orchid Flora of Colombia Vol 1: 272 Szlachetko & Kolanowska 2017 as M integrus drawing fide;

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