Microchilus sparreorum (Garay) Ormerod 2002
Photo by © M Rodriguez
Photo by © Alexander Hirtz
Drawing of Erythrodes sparreorum by © Dodson
EARLY
Common Name The Sparres' Microchilus [Refers the original collectors of the species Baron Benkt Sparre and hius wife Swedish Botanist 1918 - 1986]
Flower Size .08" [2 mm]
Found in Valle de Cauca department of Colombia and Ecuador in lowland tropical and montane wet cloud forests at elevations around 20 to 800 meters as a medium sized, hot to warm growing terrestrial with a creeping then ascennding rhizome giving rise to an erect, glabrous stem carrying 8 to 10, spirally arranged, in the lower half of the stem, oblong-lanceolate to elliptic-ocvate, acute to acuminate, green, 3 to 5 prominently veined beneath, gradually narrowing below into the narrowly canaliculate, shortly petiolate vaginate base leaves that blooms in the fall and early winter on an erect, terminal, subdensely villose, to 12" [30 cm] long overall, rachis to 4" [10 cm] long, cylindric, loosely many flowered inflorescence with a few remote sheaths and with linear-lanceolate, acuminate, sparsely pubescent, shorter than the ovary floral bracts and carrying small, cream colored flowers with glandular sepals.
Synonyms *Erythrodes sparreorum Garay 1978
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
Flora of Ecuador No 9 225[1]: 283 Garay 1978 as Erythrodes sparreorum drawing fide;
Icones Plantarum Tropicarum Plate 103 Dodson 1980 as Erythrodes sparreorum drawing fide;
* Lindleyana 17: 221 Ormerod 2002
Orchids of the Department of Valle del Cauca Vol 1 Kolanowski & Szlachetko 2012 drawing fide;
Materials to the Orchid Flora of Colombia Vol 1: 542 pl 100-101 Szlachetko & Kolanowska 2017 photo fide;
Materials to the Orchid Flora of Colombia Vol 1: 543 pl 102-103 Szlachetko & Kolanowska 2017 photo fide;
Materials to the Orchid Flora of Colombia Vol 1: 297 Szlachetko & Kolanowska 2017 as Aspidogyne serripetalus drawing fide;
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