Microchilus tequendamae Ormerod 2007

Drawing by © Paul Ormerod and Harvard Pap. Bot. 11: 171 fig 31 Ormerod 2008

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Common Name The Tequendama Microchilus [a waterefall in Cundinamarca Colombia]

Flower Size .12" [3 mm]

Found in Cundinamarca department of Colombia in dense humid forests at elevations around 2400 to 2500 meters as a medium sized, cold growing terrestrial orchid with an erect, terete stem carrying 9, obliquely oblong-lanceolate, acute, petiolate base leaves that blooms in the later summer on an erect, pubescent, terminal, 10.6" [26.5 cm] long, peduncle 8.6" [21.5 cm] long, provided with 3 scattered sheathing bracts, rachis 2" [5 cm] long, densely many flowered inflorescence with ovate, lanceolate, acute, a bit longer than the ovary floral bracts and carrying externally pubescent, white flowers.

"This species is closely related to its Colombian congener Microchilus globosus but it differs in having smaller leaves .128" to .152" x .044 to .056" (3.2 to 3.8 x 1.1 to 1 .6 cm), flowers with pubescent sepals and a .076" [1.8 mm] long subglobose-obovoid spur. In M. globosus the leaves are larger .18 to .32" x .8 to 1.06" (4.5 to 8 x 2 to 2.65 cm), the flowers have glabrous sepals and the .048" [1.2 mm] long spur is subglobose." Ormerod 2007

Synonyms Kreodanthus sytsmae Ormerod 2008

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;

* Harvard Pap. Bot. 11: 172 Ormerod 2007

Harvard Pap. Bot. 11: 171 fig 31 Ormerod 2008 drawing fide,

Materials to the Orchid Flora of Colombia Vol 1: 266 Szlachetko & Kolanowska 2017 drawing fide;

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