Microchilus machalillae Ormerod 2008

TYPE Drawing by © Paul Ormerod and Harvard Pap. Bot. 13: 79 fig 30 Ormerod 2008

EARLY

Common Name The Machalilla National Park Microchilus

Flower Size .12" [3 mm]

Found in Manabi province of Ecuador in secondary forest at elevations of 600 to 700 meters as a small sized, warm growing terrestrial with a creeping, terete rhizome giving rise to an erect, terete stem carrying 7, obliquely oblong-elliptic, subacuminate, petiolate base leaves that blooms in the early summer on an erect, terminal, pubescent, 14.2" [35.5 cm] long overall, peduncle 7.2" [17.65 cm] long; provided with 3 sheathing bracts, rachis 7.4" [18 cm] long, densely many-flowered inflorescence with ovate-lanceolate, acute, a bit longer than the ovary floral bracts and carrying externally pubescent, dull purple flowers.

"This is somewhat similar to the Peruvian M lechleri but it has larger flowers (sepals .28 to .31" versus .2" [7 to 7.75 vs. 5 mm] long), a shorter spur (.12 versus .16 to .172" [3 vs. 4 to 4.3 mm]), a longer labellum hypochile (.22 versus ,14" [5.5 vs. 3.5 mm]), and a longer (.156 versus .12 to .128" [3.9 vs. 3 to 3.2 mm]) column." Ormerod 2008

Synonyms

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;

* Harvard Pap. Bot. 13: 78 Ormerod 2008

Harvard Pap. Bot. 13: 79 fig 30 Ormerod 2008 Drawing fide

Materials to the Orchid Flora of Colombia Vol 1: 314 Szlachetko & Kolanowska 2017 drawing fide;

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