Microchilus julianii E.C.Smidt & M.W.Chase 2021 SECTION Argentaea Garay

Drawing by Carnevali & Foldats

Full ShadeWarm LATER Summer

Common Name Julian's Microchilus [Julian Steyermark American Botanist 1909 - 1988]

Flower Size .2" [5 mm]

Found in Bolivar state of Venezuela at the headwaters of the Rio Chicanan at elevations around 500 meters as a mini-miniature to small sized, warm growing terrestrial with a creeping rhizome giving rise to an ascending to erect stem carrying 2 to 6, well spaced up the stem, ovate to ovate-elliptic, deep olive-brown with red streaks on both sides of the midrib and with the same colored spots near the margin above, pale lavender with streaks and dots below, acute, rounded to truncate below into the petiolate base leaves that blooms in the later summer on an erect, 1.8 to 4.4" [4.5 to 11 cm] long, peduncle densely pubescent, laxly few to several, few to 5 flowered inflorescence with ovate, acute, shorter than the ovary floral bracts and carrying small, resupinate flowers with white tepals and labellum.

"Similar to M argentata but differs by having acute versus rounded or obtuse dorsal sepals, a cylindrical versus fusiform spur, the petals apically not lobulate, and the labellum with a transeversely rhombic, subacute, apical lobe versus a transversely obreniform, truncate, apiculate, apical lobe." Carnevali & Foldats 1989

Synonyms Aspidogyne steyermarkii Carnevali & Foldats 1989; Erythrodes steyermarkii (Carnevali & Foldats) Carnevali & Dodson 1993; Microchilus julianii E.C.Smidt & M.W.Chase 2021

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;

Flora de Venezuela 15[1]: 263-267 Foldats 1970

Ann. Missouri Bot. Gard. 76: 596 Carnevali & Foldats 1989 as Aspidogyne steyermarkii Drawing fide;

Lindleyana 8: 101 Carnevali & Dodson 1993 as Aspidogyne steyermarkii;

Harvard Papers in Botany, Vol. 23, No. 1: 87 Ormerod 2018 as Aspidogyne steyermarkii

Harvard Papers in Botany, Vol. 23, No. 1: 86 fig 2 Ormerod 2018 as Aspidogyne steyermarkii drawing fide

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

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