Microchilus libanoensis Ormerod 2008

TYPE Drawing by © Ormerod and Harvard Pap. Bot. 13: 76 fig 28 Ormerod 2008

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Common Name The Libano Microchilus [A town in Tolima Colombia where the type was found]

Flower Size .12" [3 mm]

Found in Tolima department of Colombia in shady woods at elevations of 1200 to 1500 meters as a small to medium sized cool growing terrestrial with a creeping, terete rhizome giving rise to an erect, terete, leafy stem carrying 6 to 8, obliquely elliptic, subacuminate, petiolate base leaves that blooms in the late fall and early winter on an erect, terminal, pubescent, 20 to 22.24" [50 to 55.6 cm] long overall, peduncle 8.6 to 9.6" [19 to 24 cm] long, provided with 3 to 5, lax sheathing bracts, rachis 12.28 to 12.6" [30.7 to 31.5 cm] long, densely many flowered inflorescence with broadly ovate-subrhombic, acute to subacuminate , more than twice longer than the ovary floral bracts and carrying externally pubescent, white flowers.

"This species is related to M. erythrodoides from the same Department in Colombia but it has flowers with an oblong- lanceolate (not subpandurate) labellum hypochile that is narrower, and with a narrower epichile." Ormerod 2008

Synonyms

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;

* Harvard Pap. Bot. 13: 77 Ormerod 2008

Harvard Pap. Bot. 13: 76 fig 28 Ormerod 2008drawing fide;

Materials to the Orchid Flora of Colombia Vol 1: 333 Szlachetko & Kolanowska 2017 drawing fide;

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