Microchilus laegaardii Ormerod 2007

TYPE Drawing by © Ormerod and Harvard Pap. Bot. 11: 162 fig 17 Ormerod 2007

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Common Name Laegaard's Microchilus [Danish Original collector of the type ]

Flower Size .12" [2 mm]

Found in Napo province of Ecuador at elevations around 250 meters as a small sized, hot growing terrestrial with a creeping, terete rhizome giving rise to an erect, leafy stem carrying 5 to 6, obliquely ovate to ovate-lanceolate, acute, petiolate base leaves that blooms in the summer on an erect, terminal, pubescent, 6.4 to 6.76" [16 to 16.8 cm] long overall, peduncle 2 to 2.2" [5.3 to 5.5 cm] long, rachis 4.2 to 4.6" [10.5 to 11.5 cm] long, almost sublaxly many flowered inflorescence with lanceolate, acute, slightly shorter than the ovary floral bracts and carrying externally pubescent flowers of unknown colors.

"This species is closely related to the wide-spread M. arietinus from Argentina, Bolivia and Brazil. From the latter it differs in having an inflorescence with a shorter peduncle (2.12 to 2.2" versus 3.72 to 9.08" [5.3-5.5 vs. 9.3-22.7 cm]) and flowers in which the labellum hypochile is only slightly contricted apically. In M. arietinus the hypochile is distinctly narrowed or constricted apically to about .044" [1.1 mm] wide as opposed to .056" [1.4 mm]." Ormerod 2007

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References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;

* Harvard Pap. Bot. 11: 161 Ormerod 2007

Harvard Pap. Bot. 11: 162 fig 17 Ormerod 2007 drawing fide;

Materials to the Orchid Flora of Colombia Vol 1: 350 Szlachetko & Kolanowska 2017 drawing fide;

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