Microchilus myrmex (Ormerod) E.C.Smidt & M.W.Chase 2021

TYPE Drawing of Kreodanthus myrmex by © Paul Ormerod and Harvard Pap. Bot. 9: 393 fig 3 Ormerod 2005

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Common Name The ? Microchilus

Flower Size .12" [3 mm]

Found in Putumayo department of Colombia in wet colud forests at elvations aroound 2700 meters as a small sized, cold growing terrestrial with a terete rhizome giving rise to an erect, leafy stem carrying laxly 10, lanceolate rarely ovate, subacuminate, edges crisp, petiolate base leaves that blooms in the later summer on an erect, terminal, subdensely pubescent, 12.4" [36 cm] long, peduncle 10.2" [25.5 cm] long, rachis 4.2" [10.5 cm] long, subdensely many flowered inflorescence with broadly ovate-rhombic, subaristate, edges ciliate, shorter than the ovary floral bracts and carrying very sparsely externally pubescent flowers.

"This species is closely related to Microchilus ecuadorensis , but unlike that species it has leaves with crisped edges, smaller floral bracts .28 versus .6" (7 vs. 15 mm long), slightly smaller flowers .18 versus .24" (4.5 vs. 6.0 mm long) with a slightly longer spur .44 versus .36 (11 vs. 9 mm) and shorter column .12 versus .16" (3 vs. 4 mm)." Ormerod 2005

Synonyms *Kreodanthus myrmex Ormerod 2005

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;

Harvard Pap. Bot. 9: 394 Ormerod 2005 as Kreodanthus myrmex

Harvard Pap. Bot. 9: 393 fig 3 Ormerod 2005 as Kreodanthus myrmex drawing fide

Materials to the Orchid Flora of Colombia Vol 1: 442 Szlachetko & Kolanowska 2017 as Kreodanthus myrmex drawing fide;

* Bot. J. Linn. Soc. 197: 341 E.C.Smidt & M.W.Chase 2021

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