Microchilus microcaprinus Ormerod 2005

TYPE Drawing by © Paul Ormerod and Harvard Pap. Bot. 9: 413 fig 25 Ormerod 2005

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Common Name The Tiny Goat-Like Microchilus [refers to the plant size and where it grows]

Flower Size .1" [2.5 mm]

Found in San Martin department of Peru on steep banks along a gorge at elevations of 760 to 790 meters as a small sized, warm growing terrestrial with an erect, terete stem carrying 7, green, lanceolate, acute, petiolate base leaves that blooms in the late summer and early fall on an erect, terminal, pubescent, pink-brown, 12.64" to 17" [16.5 cm] long, peduncle 10.64 to 14.8" " [26.6 to 37 cm] long, provided with 2, lowest subfoliaceous sheathing bracts, rachis 2.6" [6.5 cm] long, 30 to 40 flowered inflorescence with ovate-lanceolate, acute, somewhat longer than the ovary floral bracts and carrying externally pubescent, white flowers.

"This species is somewhat similar to Microchilus rioesmeraldae from Colombia, but it has plain green rather than silver-striped leaves, and the hypochile is cuneate rather than subpandurate." Ormerod 2005

Synonyms

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;

* Harvard Pap. Bot. 9: 412 Ormerod 2005

Harvard Pap. Bot. 9: 413 fig 25 Ormerod 2005 drawing fide

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