Microchilus trianae Ormerod 2009

TYPE Drawing by Paul Ormerod and Harvard Pap. Bot. 14: 127 fig 15 Ormerod 2009

Common Name Triana's Microchilus [Colombian Botanist 1800's]

Flower Size .12" [3 mm]

Found in Nariño department of Colombia and Ecuador? at elevations around 1500 to 1600 meters as a medium to large sized, cool growing terrestrial with a partial terete stem carrying at least 3, obliquely elliptic, acute to subacuminate, boldly maculate, petiolate base leaves that blooms on an erect, terminal, pubescent, 15.32" [38.3 cm] long, peduncle 7.32" [18.3 cm] long, provided with 3, lax, acute sheathing bracts, rachis 8" [20 cm] long, subdensely many flowered inflorescence with ovate-lanceolate, acuminate, shorter than to longer than the ovary floral bracts and carrying externally pubescent flowers of unknown colors

"This distinctive species appears to be without any close relatives. It may be recognised by its boldly marked leaves, flowers with a subpandurate labellum hypochile constricted into a short claw, and a small subanchoriform epichile. Christenson (2004) has supplied a photograph of a leaf of an unflowered Microchilus species from Ecuador. The leaf markings match those of M. trianae quite well, indicating that it may well also occur in Ecuador." Ormerod 2009

Synonyms

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;

* Harvard Pap. Bot. 14: 126 Ormerod 2009

Harvard Pap. Bot. 14: 127 fig 15 Ormerod 2009 drawing fide;

Materials to the Orchid Flora of Colombia Vol 1: 288 Szlachetko & Kolanowska 2017 drawing fide;

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