Microchilus micayvallis Ormerod 2005

TYPE Drawing by © Paul Ormerod and Harvard Pap. Bot. 9: 410 fig 24 Ormerod 2005

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Common Name The Micay Valley Microchilus [A Valley in Cauca department of Colombia]

Flower Size .12" [3 mm]

Found in Cauca department of Colombia in forests at elevations of 1400 to 1500 meters as a medium sized , cool growing terrestrial with a terete, creeping rhizome giving rise to an erect, terete stem carrying laxly, 8, obliquely elliptic, subacuminate, petiolate base leaves that blooms in the late spring and early summer on an erect, terminal, pubescent, 11.36" [28.4 cm] long, peduncle 7.36" [18.4 cm] long, provided with 4, scattered sheathing bracts, rachis 4" [10 cm] long, subsecund, densely many flowered inflorescence with oblong-elliptic, subacuminate, twice as long as the ovary floral bracts and carrying externally pubescent, greenish white flowers.

"This species is similar in its floral characters to Microchilus hetaerioides, but the latter has smaller floral bracts ca. .4 versus .56" [10 vs. 14 mm] long, smaller flowers .24 versus .32" [6 vs. 8 mm] long, a shorter spur .14 versus .16 to .18" [3.5 vs. 4. to 4.5 mm], and a labellum with a narrower hypochile .06 versus .08 to .12" [1.5 vs. 2 to 3 mm] not dilated in the basal half." Ormerod 2005

Synonyms

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;

* Harvard Pap. Bot. 9: 411 Ormerod 2005

Harvard Pap. Bot. 9: 410 fig 24 Ormerod 2005 drawing fide

Materials to the Orchid Flora of Colombia Vol 1: 311 Szlachetko & Kolanowska 2017 drawing fide;

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