Microchilus zingarae Ormerod 2008

TYPE Drawing by Paul Ormerod and Harvard Pap. Bot. 13: 85 fig 40 Ormerod 2008

LATE EARLY

Common Name The Finca Zingara Microchilus

Flower Size .12" [3 mm]

Found in Valle de Cauca department of Colombia in foggy forests at elevations around 1900 meters as a small sized, cool growing terrestrial with an elongate, creeping terete rhizome giving rise to an erect, short stem carrying 3, obliquely ovate, subacuminate, petiolate base leaves that blooms in the late spring on an erect, pubescent, terminal, pubescent, 12.48" [31.2 cm] long, peduncle 8" [20 cm] long, provided with laxly 4 to 5, sheathing bracts, rachis 4.48" [11.2 cm] long, sublaxly many flowered inflorescence with ovate-lanceolate, acute, a bit longer than the ovary floral bracts and carrying externally pubescent flowers that are green in basal part, white in apical part.

"This species is somewhat similar to the Peruvian M palmazuensis but it has flowers with a longer .168 to .18" verrsus .12" (4.2 to 4.5 vs. 3 mm) spur, a longer .16 versus .128" (4 vs. 3.2 mm) labellum hypochile, and a wider .156 versus .12" (3.9 vs. 3 mm) epichile. " Ormerod 2007

Synonyms

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;

* Harvard Pap. Bot. 13: 86 Ormerod 2008

Harvard Pap. Bot. 13: 85 fig 40 Ormerod 2008 drawing fide;

Materials to the Orchid Flora of Colombia Vol 1: 356 Szlachetko & Kolanowska 2017 drawing fide;

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