Microchilus vilnerae Ormerod 2008

TYPE Drawing by Paul Ormerod and Harvard Pap. Bot. 13: 85 fig 38 Ormerod 2008

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Common Name The la Vilnera Microchilus [A town in Cauca Colombia near where the type was collected]

Flower Size .12" [3 mm]

Found in Cauca department of Colombia at elevations around 1600 to 2200 meters as a medium sized, cool to cold growing terrestrial with a lower part not seen, terete, stem carrying 5, obliquely elliptic, subacuminate, petiolate base leaves that blooms in the late spring on an erect, terminal, pubescent, 15.6" [38.5 cm] long, peduncle 8.92" [22.3 cm] long, provided with 5, lax sheathing bracts, rachis 6.48" [16.2 cm] long, dsensely many flowered inflorescence with elliptic, acute, more than twice longer than the ovary floral bracts and carrying externally pubescent flowers of unknown colors

"This species differs from its Colombian congener M erythrodoides in having longer .6 versus .38 to .48" (15 vs. 9.5 to 12 mm) floral bracts, flowers with an obliquely obovoid-ellipsoid (not narrowly obovoid) spur, late subpandurate (not evenly subpandurate), narrower .04 to .06" versus .043 to .076" (1 to 1.5 vs. 1.75 to 1.9 mm) labellum hypochile, and wider .146 versus .12 to .128" (3.6 vs. 3 to 3.2 mm), transversely oblong-semilunate (not transversely oblong) epichile." Ormerod 2008

Synonyms

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;

* Harvard Pap. Bot. 13: 84 Ormerod 2008

Harvard Pap. Bot. 13: 85 fig 38 Ormerod 2008 drawing fide;

Materials to the Orchid Flora of Colombia Vol 1: 308 Szlachetko & Kolanowska 2017 drawing fide

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