Microchilus lechleri Ormerod 2005

TYPE Drawing by © Ormerod and Harvard Pap. Bot. 9: 410 fig 22 Ormerod 2005

EARLIER

Common Name Lechler's Microchilus [Collector of the type 1800's]

Flower Size .12" [3 mm]

Found in Peru in shady woods as a miniature to small sized terrestrial with an erect, terete, leafy stem carrying laxly 9, obliquely oblong-elliptic, acuminate, petiolate base leaves that blooms in the earlier winter on an erect, terminal, pubescent, 21.9" [54.8 cm ] long overall, peduncle 26.4" [28.5 cm] long, provided with 4, scattered sheathing bracts, rachis 10.52" [26.3 cm] long, subdensely 70 + flowered inflorescence with oblong-lanceolate, acute, much longer than the ovary floral bracts and carrying externally pubescent flowers.

"In habit, this species reminds one of the Colombian Microchilus procerus, but it differs from that species in having slightly smaller flowers .2 versus .24" (5 vs. 6 mm) with a longer spur .16 versus .134" (4 vs. 3.5 mm), a shorter and narrower hypochile .14 x .041 to .06" versus .16 x .08" versus .1" (3.5 x 1.25 to 1.5 mm vs. 4.0 x 2 to 2.5 mm), and a smaller epichile .12 versus .16" (3 vs. 4 mm wide." 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 22 Ormerod 2005drawing fide;

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