Microchilus sytsmae (Ormerod) E.C.Smidt & M.W.Chase 2021

Drawing by © Paul Ormerod and Harvard Pap. Bot. 13: 60 fig 7 Ormerod 2008

Common Name Sytsma's Microchilus [American Botansit Original cocollector of the type current]

Flower Size .4" [1 cm]

Found in Boca del Toro province of Panama in ridge forests at elevations around 1200 to 2100 meters as a small sized, cool to cold growing terrestrial orchid with a creeping, terete rhizome giving rise to an erect, terete stem carrying 4 to 11, obliquely ovate to ovate-lanceolate, acute to subacuminate, edges crenulate, petiolate base leaves that blooms in the summer on a terminal, 3.4 to 4.4" [8.5 to 11 cm] long, peduncle .92 to 1.6" " [2.3 to 4 cm] long, provided with 1 to 2 sheathing bracts, rachis 2.48 to 2.96" [6.2 to 7.4 cm] long, subdensely 17 to 23 flowered inflorescence with ovate, acute, longer to shorter than the ovary floral bracts and carrying glabrous, light green flowers.

""This species is related to the Costa Rican Microchilus curvatus but it has flowers with a shorter .12 versus .164" (3 vs. 4.1 mm) dorsal sepal, a shorter .76 versus .14 to .162" (1.9 vs. 3.5 to 3.8 mm) spur, and a shorter .64 versus .76 to .8" (1.6 vs. 1.9 to 2 mm) column that is medially (not apically) bent." Ormerod 2008." Ormerod 2007

Synonyms Kreodanthus sytsmae Ormerod 2008

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;

Harvard Pap. Bot. 13: 61 Ormerod 2008 as Kreodanthus sytsmae'

Harvard Pap. Bot. 13: 60 fig 7 Ormerod 2008 as Kreodanthus sytsmae drawing fide,

Materials to the Orchid Flora of Colombia Vol 1: 439 Szlachetko & Kolanowska 2017 as Kreodanthus sytsmae drawing fide;

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

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