Microchilus jussariensis (Ormerod) E.C.Smidt & M.W.Chase 2021

TYPE Drawing of Aspidogyne jussariensis by © Ormerod and Harvard Pap. Bot. 21: 234 fig 1 Ormerod 2016

Common Name The Jussari Microchilus [A town in Bahia Brazil]

Flower Size .1" [2.5 mm]

Found in Bahia state of Brazil at elevations around 100 to 400 meters as a miniature sized, hot growing terrestrial with a creeping, terete rhizome giving rise to an erect, terete, leafy stem carrying 3 to 4, strongly discolored with obscurwe green varigation with pale white reticulation with magnification, obliquely ovate, acute to subacuminate, petiolate base leaves that blooms in the winter on an erect, terminal, pubescent, 3.2 to 4" [8 to 10 cm] long overall, peduncle 2.4 to 3.2 to 10" [6 to 8 cm] long, provided with 6 to 7, pubescent, lowermost sometimes subfoliaceous sheathing bracts, rachis .8" [2 cm] long, densely many flowered inflorescence with lanceolate, acute, laxly pubescent, somewhat shorter than the ovary floral bracts and carrying sparsely externally pubescent flowers with the sepals and petals white with a wine red stripe along the midvein.

"Part of the M argentea complex. It is most similar to M. metallescens , sharing with that species dark green leaves that appear to lack colored reticulation, and flowers with a rectangular to squarish epichile. However A. metallescens differs from A. jussariensis in having a labellum hypochile that lacks free tips or sidelobes, the epichile is sessile (not clawed) and ends in a broad triangular apex (vs. truncate with rounded sides, between which is a small apiculus). Another similar species is M decorus since it has a labellum with free sidelobe tips and a clawed epichile. However the epichile of A. decora is transversely elliptic-suborbicular." Ormerod 2016

Synonyms *Aspidogyne jussariensis Ormerod 2016

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;

Harvard Pap. Bot. 21: 231 Ormerod 2016 as Aspidogyne jussariensis

Harvard Pap. Bot. 21: 234 fig 1 Ormerod 2016 as Aspidogyne jussariensis drawing fide;

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

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