Microchilus schneideri Ormerod 2013

TYPE Drawing by © Ormerod and Harvard Pap. Bot. 18: 59 fig 5 Ormerod 2013

Common Name Schneider's Microchilus [Martin Schneider Collector of the type 1900's]

Flower Size .12" [3 mm]

Found in Cundinamarca department of Colombia in shadowey woods at elevations around 1650 meters as a small sized, cool growing terrestrial with an erect, terete, leafy stem carrying 4 to 6, lanceolate to ovate-lanceolate, acute, with a whitish central stripe, petiolate base leaves that blooms in the later fall on an erect, terminal, pubescent, 7.6" to 10.2" [19 to 25.5 cm] long overall, peduncle 5.2 to 6.8" [13 to 17 cm] long, rachis 2.4 to 3.4" [6 to 8.5 cm] long, laxly many flowered inflorescence with broadly lanceolate, acute, longer than the ovary floral bracts and carrying laxly, externally pubescent flowers of unknown colors.

"This species is a member of the M. arietinus complex, a rare group in Colombia. It is perhaps most similar to Microchilus kuduyariensis from the lowlands of Amazonian Colombia but differs from that in having flowers with a narrower .148 versus .24" [3.7 versus 6 mm] epichile, a broader, ellipsoid (vs. narrower, narrowly oblongoid) spur and a shorter .104" versus .12" (2.6 vs. 3 mm) column." Ormerod 2013

Synonyms

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;

* Harvard Pap. Bot. 18: 58 Ormerod 2013 drawing fide;

Harvard Pap. Bot. 18: 59 fig 5 Ormerod 2013 drawing fide;

Materials to the Orchid Flora of Colombia Vol 1: 295 Szlachetko & Kolanowska 2017 as Ligeophila amazonicus drawing fide;

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