Microchilus pimentelii Ormerod 2007

TYPE Drawing by Paul Ormerod and Harvard Pap. Bot. 9: 165 fig 22 Ormerod 2005

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Common Name Pimentel's Microchilus [Dominican cocollecter of the type current]

Flower Size .16" [4 mm]

Found in the Dominican Republic near small streams in very humid forests at elevations of 800 to 1175 meters as a medium sized, warm to cool growing terrestrial with a creeping, terete rhizome giving rise to an erect, terete stem carrying laxly 5, obliquely elliptic, acute, petiolate base leaves that blooms in the later fall and winter on an erect, terminal, pubescent, 15 to 15.48" [37.5 to 38.7 cm] long, peduncle 9.87" to 10.14" [24.7 to 26.3 cm] long, provided with 5 to 7 sheathing bracts, rachis 4.48 to 5.6" [11.2 to 14 cm] long, sublaxly 40 flowered inflorescence with ovate-lanceoalte, acute, longer than the the ovary floral bracts and carrying externally pubescent, white flowers.

"Externally this species is very similar to Microchilus laticalcar (Dod) Ormerod 2002 also from the Dominican Republic but it differs from that taxon in having flowers in which the labellum hypochile is of regular thickness throughout its length (thus semitubular) and the epichile is wider .16" versus .0104" (4 vs. 2.6 mm) and subanchoriform in shape. In M. laticalcar the hypochile is much thickened (thus nearly solid in cross-section) and the smaller epichile is transversely oblong." Ormerod 2007

Synonyms

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;

* Harvard Pap. Bot. 11: 166 Ormerod 2007

Harvard Pap. Bot. 9: 165 fig 22 Ormerod 2005 drawing fide;

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