Microchilus moritzii Ormerod 2005

TYPE Drawing by © Paul Ormerod and Harvard Pap. Bot. 9: 413 fig 26 Ormerod 2005

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Common Name Moritz's Microchilus [German Botanist and botanical collector of the type 1800's]

Flower Size .1" [2.5 mm]

Found in Venezuela without locality but on shady riverbanks as a small sized, cool growing terrestrial with an erect, terete stem carrying 6 to 8, ovate-elliptic, subacuminate, petiolate base leaves that blooms in the late summer and early fall on an erect, terminal, pubescent, 12.64" to 17" [31.5 to 44 cm] long, peduncle 10.64 to 14.8" [17 to 22.5 cm] long, provided with 6, laxly scattered, semi tubular to ovate-lanceolate, acute sheathing bracts, rachis 2.6" [9 to 23.5cm] long, subdensely many flowered inflorescence with paleaceous, ovate, subacuminate, almost 3 times longer than the ovary floral bracts and carrying externally pubescent flowers.

"This species seems to be a member of the Microchilus paleaceus complex because it possesses paleaceous floral bracts like that species, but it differs from the latter taxon in that the labellum epichile has a broad obcuneate base. It also differs from its Venezuelan relative Microchilus fendleri in the same character." Ormerod 2005

Synonyms

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;

* Harvard Pap. Bot. 9: 412 ormerod 2005

Harvard Pap. Bot. 9: 413 fig 26 Ormerod 2005 drawing fide

Materials to the Orchid Flora of Colombia Vol 1: 325 Szlachetko & Kolanowska 2017 drawing fide;

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