Microchilus preslii Ormerod 2002
TYPE Drawing of Erythrodes arietina by © Dodson
Holo TYPE Drawing by © Ormerod
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Common Name Presl's Microchilus [Czech Botanist Jan Svatopluk Presl 1791-1841]
Flower Size .08" [2 mm]
Found in Bolivia, Peru and perhaps Ecuador [Garay ex Dodson & P.M.Dodson 1980] in wet montane forests at elevations of 2100 meters as a miniature to small sized, cold growing terrestrial with an erect stem carrying spirally arranged, mottled light on dark green, obliquely oblong-lanceolate, acute, gradually dilating below into the petiolate base leaves that blooms in the late fall and early winter on an erect, terminal, elongate, 5" [12.5 cm] overall, rachis, 1.6" [4 cm] long, laxly several flowered inflorescence with ovate-lanceolate, acuminate, glandular, progressively longer than the ovary floral bracts.
"The new species is related to Microchilus arietinus but differs in having narrower, oblanceolate, versus ligulate-cuneate, petals amd a wholly papillose epichils. Another close relative is Microchilus trifasciatus but it differs in its shorter stems, subsesslie leaves transversely spotted with white and flowers with spathulate-oblanceolate, subtruncate petals with irregularily dentate, apical margins. The leaves of M preslii appear to have 1 to 3, longitudinal, white stripes as far as can be judged by the type specimen." Ormerod 2002
Synonyms Erythrodes preslii Garay ex Dodson & P.M.Dodson 1980
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
Icones Plantarum Tropicarum Plate 102 Dodson 1980 as Erythrodes preslei drawing fide;
Icones plantarum Tropicarum Ser II: 339 Dodson & Vasques 1989 as E arietina not = drawing fide
Icones Orchidacearum Peruviarum Plate 659 Bennett & Christenson 2001 as Erythrodes preslii not = Microchilus major C.Presl 1827
* Lindleyana 17: 221 Ormerod 2002
Materials to the Orchid Flora of Colombia Vol 1: 369 Szlachetko & Kolanowska 2017 drawing fide;
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