Microchilus marulandae Ormerod 2008

TYPE Drawing by © Paul Ormerod and Harvard Pap. Bot. 13: 79 fig 31 Ormerod 2008

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Common Name Marulanda's Microchilus [Colombia collector of the type current]

Flower Size .12" [3 mm]

Found in Antioquia department of Colombia in disturbed dark forests at elevations around 1950 meters as a small? sized, cool growing terrestrial with an erect, terete stem carrying 4, obliquely oblong-elliptic, subacuminate, petiolate base leaves that blooms in the laterr spring on an erect, terminal, pubescent, 9.92" [24.8 cm] long overall, peduncle 6.68" [16.7 cm] long; provided with 4 sheathing bracts, rachis 3.6" [8.1 cm] long, subdensely to densely many-flowered inflorescence with broadly ovate-lanceolate, subacuminate, a bit longer than the ovary floral bracts and carrying externally pubescent, white flowers.

"This species is similar to the Ecuadorian Microchilus crassibasis but its flowers have a narrower labellum hypochile and a shorter column. Another similar species is its Colombian congener Microchilus gentryi which differs from M. marulandae in having flowers with a narrow labellum hypochile with an ovate (not subquadrate-rectangular) upper half, and a more slender (not stout) column." Ormerod 2008

Synonyms

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;

* Harvard Pap. Bot. 13: 80 Ormerod 2008

Harvard Pap. Bot. 13: 79 fig 31 Ormerod 2008 Drawing fide

Materials to the Orchid Flora of Colombia Vol 1: 279 Szlachetko & Kolanowska 2017 drawing fide;

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