Microchilus platysepalus Ormerod 2005

TYPE Drawing by Paul Ormerod andHarvard Pap. Bot. 9: 415 fig 31 Ormerod 2005

LATE EARLY

Common Name The Broad Sepal Microchilus

Flower Size

Found in Santander department of Colombia in woods or dense wet woods at elevations of 2500 to 3000 meters as a small to medium sized, warm growing terrestrial with a terete, creeping rhizome giving rise to an erect, terete stem carrying 3 to 5, ovate-lanceolate, acute, petiolate base leaves that blooms in the late winter and early spring on an erect, terete stem carrying laxly 6 to 9, ovate, ovate-lanceolate to lanceolate, acute petiolate base leaves that blooms in the late fall and early winter on an erect, terminal, pubescent, 9.56 to 16" [23.9 to 40 cm] long, peduncle 4.42 to 9.2" [11.5 to 23 cm] long, provided with 5 to 7, tubular, obliquely truncate, acute sheathing bracts, rachis 2.6 to 6.88" [6.5 to 17.7 cm] long, laxly to densely many flowered inflorescence with broadly oblong, to ovate-lanceolate, acute, longer than the ovary floral bracts and carrying externally pubescent, white flowers with a yellow column.

"This species is closely related to Microchilus fosbergii but it differs from M platysepalus in having a labellum with a trilobed (not entire) hypochile and a wider epichile with wider obcuneate lobules." Ormerod 2005

Synonyms .12" [3 mm]

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;

* Harvard Pap. Bot. 9: 416 Ormerod 2005

Harvard Pap. Bot. 9: 415 fig 31 Ormerod 2005 drawing fide;

Materials to the Orchid Flora of Colombia Vol 1: 254 Szlachetko & Kolanowska 2017 as Aspidogyne chocoensis drawing fide;

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