Microchilus kuduyariensis Ormerod 2005

TYPE Drawing by © Ormerod and Harvard Pap. Bot. 9: 410 fig 21 Ormerod 2005

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Common Name The Rio Kuduyari Microchilus [A River where the orchid was discovered]

Flower Size .16" [4 mm]

Found in Vaupes department of Colombia at elevations around 200 meters as a small to medium sized, hot growing terrestrial with a decumbent becoming erect, leafy stem carrying 5 to 6, obliquely ovate-oblong to ovate, acute, petiolate base leaves that blooms in the late summer and early fall on an erect, terminal, pubescent, 6 to 7.4" [15 to 18.5 cm] long overall, peduncle 2 to 2.2" [5 to 5.5 cm] long, provided with 3, scattered, ovate-lanceolate, acute sheathing bracts, rachis 4 to 5.4" [10 to 13.5 cm] long, subdensely 37 to 55 flowered inflorescence with lanceolate, acute, slightly longer than the ovary floral bracts and carrying externally laxly pubescent flowers.

"This species may be distinguished from others in the Microchilus arietinus complex by its combination of ovate-oblong to ovate leaves and lip with a .24" [6 mm] wide epichile. Other species in the group usually have lanceolate, ovate-lanceolate, or rarely ovate leaves and a lip with an epichile at most .16" [4 mm] broad." Ormerod 2005

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References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;

* Harvard Pap. Bot. 9: 409 Ormerod 2005

Harvard Pap. Bot. 9: 410 fig 21 Ormerod 2005 drawing fide;

Materials to the Orchid Flora of Colombia Vol 1: 371 Szlachetko & Kolanowska 2017 drawing fide;

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