Microchilus topoensis Ormerod 2019

TYPE Drawing by © Paul Ormerod and Harvard Pap. Bot. 24: 277 Fig 2 Ormerod 2019

Common Name The Rio Topo Microchilus

Flower Size .12" [3 mm]

Found in Tungurahua province of Ecuador at elevations of 1240 to 1450 meters as a medium sized, cool growing terrestrial with a terete, erect stem carrying 4, in the upper half, obliquely ovate-lanceolate to ovate- elliptic, acute to subacuminate, transversely mottled dark green, petiolate base leaves that blooms in the fall on a terminal, erect, pubescent, to 12.24" [33.1 cm] long, peduncle 7.64" [19.1 cm] long, provided with 7, lax sheathing bracts, rachis 5.6" [14 cm] long, subsecund, subdensely many flowered inflorescence with ovate-lanceolate, acute, longer than the ovary floral bracts and carrying externally, laxly pubescent, white, basally green flowers.

"This species is superficially similar to Microchilus anchoriferus in having leaves with dark green markings, but the petals are narrower, the spur longer, and the column is longer." Ormerod 2019

Synonyms

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;

Icon. Pl. Trop. s. 2: t. 494. Dodson 1989 as Erythrodes anchorifera = M topoensis

Icones Planetarum Tropicarum Plate 494 Dodson 1989 as Erythrodes anchorifera drawing not = Microchilus topoensis drawing fide;

Native Ecuadorian Orchids Vol 2 Dodson 2001 as Erythrodes anchorifera drawing not = Microchilus topoensis drawing fide

* Harvard Pap. Bot. 24: 278 Ormerod 2019

Harvard Pap. Bot. 24: 277 fig 2 Ormerod 2019 drawing fide;

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