Microchilus valdivianus Ormerod 2008

TYPE Drawing by Paul Ormerod and Harvard Pap. Bot. 13: 82 fig 36 Ormerod 2008

Common Name The Valdivia Microchilus [A town in Antioquia near where the type was collected]]

Flower Size .12" [3 mm]

Found in Antioquia department of Colombia at elevations around 2000 meters as a medium to large sized [in flower], cool to cold growing terrestrial with a terete stem carrying laxly 5 to 6, obliquely ovate to ovate-elliptic, subacuminate, petiolate base leaves that blooms in the winter on an erect, terminal, pubescent, 26.92" [67.3 cm] long, peduncle 11.6 to 14.2" [29 to 35.5 cm] long, provided with 6, scattered sheathing bracts, rachis 12.72" [31.8 cm] long, sublaxly many flowered inflorescence with lanceolate, acute, longer than the ovary floral bracts and carrying externally pubescent white flowers

"This species is most similar to its Colombian congener M pseudominor but it has flowers with ligulate-oblanceolate (not oblong-ligulate) petals, a shorter .076 to .08 versus .01 to .012" (1.9-2.0 vs. 2.5-3.0 mm) conical (not oblongoid-ellipsoid) spur, broader .12 versus .096"(2.8 vs. 2.4 mm) labellum epichile, and longer .114 to .12 versus .094" (2.75 to 3 vs 2.25 mm) column." Ormerod 2008

Synonyms

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;

* Harvard Pap. Bot. 13: 84 Ormerod 2008

Harvard Pap. Bot. 13: 85 fig 37 Ormerod 2008 drawing fide;

Materials to the Orchid Flora of Colombia Vol 1: 353 Szlachetko & Kolanowska 2017

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------