Microchilus serripetalus (Garay) E.C.Smidt & M.W.Chase 2021

Drawing of Aspidogyne serripetalus by © A Krol/ Szlachetko & Kolanowska 2017

Common Name The Serrate Petal Microchilus

Flower Size

Found in Colombia and Mexico? without locational data as a medium sized terrestrial with a prorepent, becoming erect, slender stem carrying 5, gathered in the lower portion of the stem, thin, obliquely oblong to oblanceolate to ligulate-oblanceolate, acute to acuminate, cuneate below into the petiolate base leaves that blooms on an erect, terminal, somewhat arcuate, racemose, peduncle to 12" [to 30 cm] long, rather densely glandular-pilose, rachis to [16 cm] long, laxly many flowered inflorescence with sparsely glandular basally, lanceolate, acuminate, longer than the ovary floral bracts and carrying small flowers with glabrous sepals.

"Easily separable from others by the serrate margins of the petals and lip. Ormerod in 2007 considered this species as a synonym of Microchilus bidentiferus . More research needs to be done here." Szlachetko & Kolanowska 2017

Synonyms Aspidogyne serripetala (Garay) Garay 1977; *Erythrodes serripetala Garay 1967

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;

Bot. Mus. Leafl. 21: 250 Garay 1967 as Erythrodes serripetala

Bradea 2: 204 Garay 1977 as Aspidogyne serripetalus

Harvard Pap. Bot. 11: 146 Ormerod 2007 as Synonym of Aspidogyne bidentifera

Materials to the Orchid Flora of Colombia Vol 1: 420 Szlachetko & Kolanowska 2017 as Aspidogyne serripetalus drawing fide;

* Bot. J. Linn. Soc. 197: 343 E.C.Smidt & M.W.Chase 2021

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