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

TYPE Drawing of Stephanothelys rariflora by © Garay 1977

Full shade Warm LATE winter EARLY Spring

Common Name The Sparsely Flowered Microchilus

Flower Size

Found in La Paz department of Bolivia at elevations around 760 to 915 meters as a small to medium sized, warm growing terrestrial with an erect stem carrying approximate, banded green and light green leaves that blooms in the late winter and early spring on an erect, terminal, few flowered inflorescence.

"This species was originally described and illustrated as having remote leaves however this feature is due to the mounting of a detached leaf midway along the inflo- rescence peduncle. The leaves are approximate and according to the collector banded (presumably lengthwise) green and light green.

Synonyms Aspidogyne sparsiflora Ormerod 2007; *Stephanothelys rariflora Garay 1977

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;

Bradea 2: 200 Garay 1977 as Stephanothelys rariflora

Harvard Pap. Bot. 11: 151 Ormerod 2007 as Aspidogyne sparsiflora

* Bot. J. Linn. Soc. 197: 344 E.C.Smidt & M.W.Chase 2021

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