Microchilus schultesianus (Garay) Ormerod 2002

TYPE Drawing by © Ormerod and Lindleyana 17: 224 fig 19 Ormerod 2002

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Common Name Schultes' Microchilus [American Botanist at Harvard 1900's]

Flower Size .12" [3 mm]

Found in Trinidad at elevations around 200 to 500 meters as a small sized, hot growing terrestrial with a decumbent then suberect stem carrying 3, broadly ovate to elliptic, acute to subacuminate, abruptly contracted below into the petiolate base leaves that blooms in the later spring on a terminal, erect, terete, slightly arcuate, minutely glandular-puberulous, provided with 4, scattered, acute sheathing bracts, 7.6" [19 cm] long, cylindrical, densely many flowered inflorescence with ovate-lanceolate, acute to subacuminate floral bracts

"Differs from other species in Trinidad in having a distinctly bilobed lip. It does not seem to be close to any described species, though its floral structure, especially the lip, resembles Microchilus xystophyllus." Garay 1957

"In herbarium material the epichile of the lip dries a light brown color and thus forms a demarcation zone at the apex of the hypochile." Ormerod 2002

Synonyms *Erythrodes schultesiana Garay 1957

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;

Rhodora 59: 287 Garay 1957 as Erythrodes schultesiana

* Lindleyana 17: 221 Ormerod 2002

Lindleyana 17: 224 fig 19 Ormerod 2002drawing fide;

Materials to the Orchid Flora of Colombia Vol 1: 345 Szlachetko & Kolanowska 2017 as M dressleri drawing fide;

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