Microchilus minor C.Presl 1827

TYPE Drawing by © C Presley

Common Name The Least Microchilus

Flower Size .08" [2 mm]

Found in Peru in montane forests as a small sized, epiphyte with an erect, pubescent, basally leafy stem carrying about 3, approximate, elliptic to oval, acute to acuminate, cuneate below into the petiolate base leaves that blooms on a linear-cylindric, rachis glabrous, to 3.6" [9 cm] long, loosely many flowered inflorescence with ovate-lanceolate, acuminate, longer than the ovary floral bracts and carrying minute, nodding, externally, sparsely pubescent flowers.

"Similar to Microchilus zingarae but M minor is characterized by the shorter spur .08" versus .168 to .18" [2 mm versus 4.2 to 4.5 mm], shorter sepals to .16" versus .3 to .32" [up, to 4 mm versus 7.5 to 8 mm] petals .14 versus .292" [3.5 versus 7.1 mm]and a narrower epichile .084 versus .156" [2.1 versus 3.9 mm] wide. Microchilus whitefoordiae differs by the obliquely oblong petals, reduced apiculus between the epichile lobules and the more or less ovate lip hypochile." Szlachetko & Kolanowska 2017 drawing fide;

Synonyms Erythrodes minor (C.Presl) Ames 1922; Physurus minor (C.Presl) Lindl. 1840

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;

* Reliq. Haenk. 1: 94 C Presl. 1827

Reliq. Haenk. 1: tab 16 C Presl. 1827 Drawing fide

Gen. Sp. Orchid. Pl.: 503 Lindley 1840 as Physurus minor (C.Presl) Lindl. 1840

Studies in the family Orchidaceae Vol VII: 74 Ames 1922 as Erythrodes minor;

Orchids of Peru Vol 1: 156 Schweinfurth 1958 as Erythrodes minor;

Flora of Ecuador No 9 225[1] Garay 1978 as Erythrodes minor

Materials to the Orchid Flora of Colombia Vol 1: 355 Szlachetko & Kolanowska 2017 drawing fide;

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