Microchilus quetamensis Ormerod 2013

TYPE Drawing by © Ormerod and Harvard Pap. Bot. 18: 56 fig 4 Ormerod 2013

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Common Name The Quetame Microchilus [A town in Cundinamarca Colombia]

Flower Size .12" [3 mm]

Found in Cundinamarca department of Colombia at elevations around 1550 meters as a small sized, cool growing terrestrial with an erect, terete, leafy stem carrying 5 to 9, obliquely elliptic, subacuminate, petiolate base leaves that blooms in the later fall on an erect, terminal, pubescent, 8.2" [20.5 cm] long overall, peduncle 4.88" [12.2 cm] long, provided with 4 to 5, lowest one subfoliaceous, sheathing bracts, rachis 3.4" [8.5 cm] long, densely many flowered inflorescence with broadly ovate, subacuminate, much longer than the ovary floral bracts and carrying externally pubescent, brownish green flowers.

"This species appears to be a close relative of its Colombian congener Microchilus libanoensis but differs from it in having flowers with ovate, weakly falcate (vs. straight, elliptic, obtuse) epichile lobules, a thickly bicarinate (vs. ecarinate) hypochile and a longer .156" versus .12" (3.9 vs. 3 mm) column." Ormerod 2013

Synonyms

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;

* Harvard Pap. Bot. 18: 58 Ormerod 2013

Harvard Pap. Bot. 18: 56 fig 4 Ormerod 2013drawing fide;

Materials to the Orchid Flora of Colombia Vol 1: 351 Szlachetko & Kolanowska 2017 as M dressleri drawing fide;

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