Microchilus erythrodoides (Schltr.) Ormerod 2002
Photo by © John Varigos and His Orchid webpage
TYPE Drawing of Physurus erythodoides by © Schlechter and The Plant Illustrations Website
Photo by © Leon Glicenstein
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Common Name The Erythrodes-Like Microchilus
Flower Size .2" [5 mm]
Found in Ecuador, Tolima department of Colombia and Venezuela in wet montane forests at elevations around 1700 to 2000 meters as a medium to just large sized, cool to cold growing terrestrial with an erect, glabrous stem carrying 4 to 5, erect-patent, obliquely elliptic, acuminate, cuneate below into the petiolate base leaves that blooms in the later fall and winter on an erect, 12" [30 cm] long, densely many flowered inflorescence with 4 to 5, acuminate, glandular-hairy bracts and erect-patent, ovate-lanceolate, acuminate, longer than the flowers floral bracts and carrying large for the genus, whitish, externally glandular-pilose flowers.
"The species is clearly closely related to Microchilus hetaerioides but has slightly larger bracts and slightly larger flowers with a thicker spur." Schlechter 1920
Synonyms Erythrodes erythrodoides (Schltr.) Ames 1922; Microchilus erythrodoides subsp. venadosae Ormerod 2008; *Physurus erythrodoides Schltr. 1920
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
Repert. Spec. Nov. Regni Veg. Beih. 7: 71 Die Orchideen der Sudamerikanischen Kordillerenstaaten II Colombia Schlechter 1920 as Physurus erythrodoides;
Orchidaceae 7: 70 Ames 1922 as Erythrodes erythrodoides
Flora of Ecuador No 9 225[1] Garay 1978 as Erythrodes erythrodoides not = Microchilus crassibasis Ormerod 2007;
Icones Planetarum Tropicarum Plate 100 Dodson 1980 as Erythrodes erythrodoides drawing not = Microchilus crassibasis;
Native Ecuadorian Orchids Vol 2 Dodson 2001 drawing not = Microchilus crassibasis Ormerod 2007;
* Lindleyana 17: 216 Ormerod 2002
AOS Bulletin Vol 79 #3 2010 photo;
Materials to the Orchid Flora of Colombia Vol 1: 346 Szlachetko & Kolanowska 2017 drawing fide;
Materials to the Orchid Flora of Colombia Vol 1: 347 Szlachetko & Kolanowska 2017 as M erythroides var venadosae drawing fide;
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