Microchilus luteynii Szlach. & Kolan. 2017

TYPE Drawing by © A Krol and Materials to the Orchid Flora of Colombia Vol 1: 305 2017

Common Name Luteyn's Microchilus [American Collector of the type current]

Flower Size .12" [2 mm]

Found in Antioquia department of Colombia at elevations around 2100 meters as a medium sized, cold growing terrestrial with a decumbent in the lower half, becoming erect, terete, leafy stem carrying 4 to 6, obliquely lanceolate, subacuminate, petiolate base leaves that blooms in the spring on an erect, terminal, glabrous below, sparsely pubescent to densely above, 1, provided with a few sheathing bracts, densely many flowered inflorescence with lanceolate, acute, sparsely pubescent, longer than the ovary floral bracts carrying externally sparsely pubescent flowers.

"This species resembles M microcalcar but differs in the promenently thickened lip hypochile along the mid vein versus a thin hypochile. Moreover the hypochile is ovate versus pandurate in M luteynii. The shape of the lip resembles Microchilus scrotiformis but is is characterized by larger flowers with the sepals .2 to .24" [5 to 6 mm] long, and a longer, .12" [3 mm] ovoid-subglobose spur. Other species with short, more or less subglobose spurs are Microchilus frontinoensis Ormerod 2008, Microchilus carbonerae and M ruizteranii but the form of the hypochile separates them from M luteynii." Szlachetko & Kolanowska 2017

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References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;

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

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