Microchilus parvilabrum Ormerod 2007

TYPE Drawing by © Paul Ormerod and Harvard Pap. Bot. 11: 165 fig 23 Ormerod 2007

Common Name The Small Lip Microchilus

Flower Size .1" [2.5 mm]

Found in Los Rios province of Ecuador at elevations around 620 to 680 meters as a small to medium sized, warm growing terrestrial with a terete, creeping rhizome giving rise to an erect, terete stem carrying 7 to 9, obliquely elliptic, subacuminate, petiolate base leaves that blooms in the summer on an erect, terminal, pubescent, 22.36" [55.9 cm] long, peduncle 10.88" [27.2 cm] long, provided with 3, scattered sheathing bracts, rachis 26.48" [28.7 cm] long, many flowered inflorescence with ovate-lanceolate, acute, pink, shorter than the ovary floral bracts and carrying externally pubescent, white flowers.

"This species is only the second in the genus known to have flowers with an ovate labellum epichile, the other taxon is the Colombian Microchilus zeuxinoides From the latter it differs in having longer leaves 4.4 to 6.04" versus 2 to 2.8" (11 to 15.1 vs. 5 to 7 cm), flowers with a longer spur .16 versus .1" (4 vs. 2.5 mm) and an ovate-lanceolate (not elliptic) labellum hypochile." Ormerod 2007

Synonyms

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;

* Harvard Pap. Bot. 11: 166 Ormerod 2007

Harvard Pap. Bot. 11: 165 fig 23 Ormerod 2007 drawing fide

Materials to the Orchid Flora of Colombia Vol 1: 275 Szlachetko & Kolanowska 2017 drawing fide;

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