Microchilus longiflorus Ormerod 2008

TYPE Drawing by © Ormerod and Harvard Pap. Bot. 13: 79 fig 29 Ormerod 2008

Common Name The Long Flowered Microchilus

Flower Size .12" [2 mm]

Found in Carchi province of Ecuador at elevations around 1330 meters as a medium sized, cool growing terrestrial with an erect, leafy stem carrying 7, obliquely oblong-elliptic, subacuminate, petiolate base leaves that blooms in the summer on an erect, terminal, pubescent, 10.8" [27 cm] long overall, peduncle 5.6" [14 cm] long, provided with 6, lax sheathing bracts, rachis 5.28" [13.2 cm] long, densely many flowered inflorescence carrying externally pubescent, cream colored flowers.

"This species is similar to the Colombian Microchilus erythrodoides ssp. venadosae but it has flowers with longer sepals and a wider labellum epichile with truncate (not rounded) lobules. Another species similar to M. longiflorus is its Ecuadorian congener M. oroensis The latter seems to differ in having broader petals, a broader hypochile, and longer column." Ormerod 2008

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References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;

* Harvard Pap. Bot. 13: 78 Ormerod 2008

Harvard Pap. Bot. 13: 79 fig 29 Ormerod 2008drawing fide;

Materials to the Orchid Flora of Colombia Vol 1: 305 Szlachetko & Kolanowska 2017 drawing fide;

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