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Drawing of Aspidogyne multifoliata by © Kew's Plants of the World Website

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Common Name The Many Leaved Microchilus

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Found in Ecuador, Loreto department of Peru and Guyana? in dense forests at elevations around 135 meters as a small sized, hot growing terrestrial with a decumbent then suberect, slender, glabrous stem carrying to 10, 3 to 5 prominently nerved, elliptic to lanceolate, acute to acuminate, broadly cuneate below into the channeled petiolate base leaves that blooms in the late winter and early spring on an erect, terminal, exceeded by some of the upper leaves, peduncle 1" [2.5 cm] long, enveloped completely by loose, imbricating sheaths, rachis 2" [5 cm] long, quaquaversal, densely many flowered inflorescence with small, glabrous flowers.

"Appears to be allied to M stenocentron but differs in having numerous leaves and a short, quaquaversal inflorescence." Schweinfurth 1941

Synonyms Aspidogyne multifoliata (C.Schweinf.) Garay 1977; *Erythrodes multifoliata C.Schweinf. 1941

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;

* Bot. Mus. Leafl. 9: 234 Schweinf. 1941as Erythrodes multifoliata

Bot. Mus. Leafl. 9: 253 Schweinf. 1941 as Erythrodes multifoliata drawing fide

Orchids of Peru Vol 1: 157 Schweinfurth 1952 as Erythrodes multifoliata

Orchids of Peru Vol 1: 158 Schweinfurth 1952 as Erythrodes multifoliata drawing fide

Bradea 2: 202 Garay 1977 as Aspidogyne multifoliata

Materials to the Orchid Flora of Colombia Vol 1: 416 Szlachetko & Kolanowska 2017 as Aspidogyne multifoliata drawing fide;

* Bot. J. Linn. Soc. 197: 342 E.C.Smidt & M.W.Chase 2021

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