Microchilus querceticolus (Lindl.) D.Dietr. 1852
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Common Name The Oak Living Microchilus - The Jug Orchid
Flower Size <.22" [less than 55 mm]
Found in Florida, Louisiana, Mexico, Belize, Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Bahamas, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Haiti, Leeward, Trinidad & Tobago, the Windwards, Venezuela and Peru in cloud forest in deep shade at elevations of 400 to 1650 meters as a miniature to medium sized, hot to cool growing, terrestrial, rhizomatous plant with erect, slender to stout, green stems enveloped by with 3 to 5 spirally arranged, elliptic-ovate to lanceolate, basally clasping leaves with a distinct petiole that blooms at any time of the year on an erect, terminal, often subsessile, provided with remotely few sheathing bracts, to 4" [to 10 cm] long, racemose, laxly to subdensely many, successively flowered inflorescence with broadly ovate to ovate-lanceolate, acute to acuminate, shorter than the ovary floral bracts.
Synonyms Anoectochilus querceticola (Lindl.) Veitch ex R.Hogg 1862; Aspidogyne maculata (Hook.) Meneguzzo 2012; Aspidogyne mayoriana (Kraenzl.) Meneguzzo 2012; Aspidogyne querceticola (Lindl.) Meneguzzo 2012; Aspidogyne sagrana (A.Rich.) Meneguzzo 2012; Aspidogyne vaginata (Hook.) Meneguzzo 2012; Erythrodes jamaicensis (Fawc. & Rendle) Fawc. & Rendle 1910; Erythrodes maculata (Hook.) Ames 1922; Erythrodes mayoriana (Kraenzl.) Ames 1922; Erythrodes querceticola (Lindl.) Ames 1915; Erythrodes sagrana (A.Rich.) León 1946; Erythrodes trinitatis Ames 1922; Erythrodes vaginata (Hook.) Ames First published in Orchidaceae 5: 29 Ames 1915 as Erythrodes vaginata Goodyera quercicola Chapm. 1860; Orchiodes quercilobum Kuntze 1891; Physurus commelinifolius Rchb.f. 1865; Physurus humidicola Schltr. 1918; Physurus jamaicensis Fawc. & Rendle 1909; Physurus maculatus Hook. 1862; Physurus mayorianus Kraenzl. 1913; Physurus parviflorus Schlecher 1925; *Physurus querceticola Lindl. 1840; Physurus sagranus A. Rich. 1850; Physurus vaginatus Hook. 1842; Platythelys maculata (Hook.) Garay 1977; Platythelys mayoriana (Kraenzl.) Garay 1977; Platythelys querceticola (Lindl.) Garay 1977; Platythelys sagrana (A.Rich.) Garay 1977; Platythelys vaginata (Hook.) Garay 1977
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
* Gen. Sp. Orchid. Pl.: 505 Lindley 1840 as Physurus querceticola
Hooker's Icon. Pl. 5: t. 449 Hook. 1842 as Physurus vaginatus
Hooker's Icon. Pl. 5: t. 449 Hook. 1842 as Physurus vaginatus Drawing fide
Hist. Fis. Cuba, Bot. 11: 253 A Rich 1850 as Physurus sagranus
Fl. South. U.S.: 463 Chapm. 1860 as Goodyera quercicola
Orch.-Grow. Man., ed. 2: 50 B S Williams 1862 as Anoectochilus querceticola nom. illeg.
Gard. Year Book 1862: 64 Veitch ex R.Hogg 1862 as Anoectochilus querceticola
Bot. Mag. 88: t. 5305 Hook. f. 1862 as Physurus maculatus
Bot. Mag. 88: t. 5305 Hook. f. 1862 as Physurus maculatus
Flora 48: 274 Rchb.f 1865 as Physurus commelinifolius
Revis. Gen. Pl. 2: 675 Kuntze 1891 as Orchiodes quercilobum nom. superfl.
Symbolae Antillanae Vol VI: 347 Orchidaceae Urban 1909 as Physurus sagaraenus;
J. Bot. 47: 264 Faecwtt & Rendle 1909 as Physurus jamaicensis
Fl. Jamaica 1: 20 Fawcett & Rendle 1910 as Erythrodes jamaicensis
Fl. Jamaica 1: Pl 3 Fawcett & Rendle 1910 as Erythrodes jamaicensis drawing fide
Mém. Soc. Sci. Nat. Neuchâtel 5: 355 Kraenzlin 1913 as Physurus mayorianus
Die Orchideen: 118 Schlechter 1915 as Physurus maculata
Die Orchideen: 119 Schlechter 1915 as Physurus querceticola;
Studies in the family Orchidaceae Vol V: 29 Ames 1915 Erythrodes maculata
Studies in the family Orchidaceae Vol V: 29 Ames 1915 Erythrodes querticola
Studies in the family Orchidaceae Vol V: 29 Ames 1915 Erythrodes sagraneus
Studies in the family Orchidaceae Vol V: 29 Ames 1915 Erythrodes vaginata
Repert. Spec. Nov. Regni Veg. 15: 198 Schelchter 1918 as Physurus humidicola
Repert. Spec. Nov. Regni Veg. 15: 199 Schlechter 1918 as Physurus trilobulatus
Atlas des Orchidees Cultivees Constantin 1920 as Physurus maculatus drawing fide;
Orchidaceae 7: 72 Ames 1922 as Erythrodes maculata
Studies in the family Orchidaceae Vol VII: 72 Ames 1922 as Erythrodes mayoriana;
Studies in the family Orchidaceae Vol VII: 75: 76 Ames 1922 as Erythrodes triniatus;
Studies in the family Orchidaceae Vol VII: 77 Ames 1922 as Erythrodes vaginata
Repert. Sp. Nov. Regni. Veg. Beih. 19: 13. Costa Rica Schlechter 1923 as Physurus vaginatus;
Repert. Spec. Nov. Regni Veg. 21: 334 Schlechter 1925 as Physurus parviflorus
Flore Descriptive des Antilles Francaises H. Stehle 1939 as Erythrodes querticola;
Contr. Ocas. Mus. Hist. Nat. Colegio "De La Salle" 8: 356 Leon 1946 as Erythrodes sagrana
Orchids of Peru Vol 1: 159 Schweinfurth 1958 as Erythrodes querceticola
Orchids of Peru Vol 1: 161 Schweinfurth 1958 as Erythrodes querceticola drawing good;
Native Orchids of Trinidad Schultes 1960 as Erythrodes trinitatis;
Encyclopedia of Cultivated Orchids Hawkes 1965;
Flora de Venezuela Foldats Volumen XV Part 1 1969 as Erythrodes querticola drawing fide;
The Native Orchids of Florida Luer 1972 as Erythrodes querceticola drawing/photos fide;
Flora of the Lesser Antilles: 84 Garay & Sweet 1974 as Erythrodes querceticola
Flora of the Lesser Antilles: 86 Garay & Sweet 1974 as Erythrodes querceticola drawing fide;
Las Orquedias De El Salvador Vol 1 Hamer 1974 as Erythrodes querceticola drawing/photo fide;
Bradea 2: 197 Garay 1977 as Platythelys maculata Drawing fide
Bradea 2: 197 Garay 1977 as Platythelys querceticola
Bradea 2: 197 Garay 1977 as Platythelys mayoriana
Bradea 2: 197 Garay 1977 as Platythelys sagrana
Bradea 2: 197 Garay 1977 as Platythelys vagtinata
Flora of Ecuador No 9 225[1] Garay 1978 drawing fide;
Orchids of Venezuela, An Illustrated Field Guide Vol 3 Dunsterville & Garay 1979 as Platythelys maculata drawing fide;
Icones Plantetarum Tropicarum Plate 207 Dodson 1980 as Platythelys maculata drawing fide;
Icones Plantarum Tropicarum Plate 1081 Hamer 1982 as Erythrodes vaginata drawing fide;
Icones Planetarum Tropicarum plate 1080 Dodson 1984 drawing fide;
Icones Planetarum Tropicarum plate 1081 Dodson 1984 as Platythelys vaginata drawing ok;
Flora Novo-Galaciana Vol 16 McVaugh 1985 as Playthelys vaginata;
Icones Planetarum Tropicarum Plate 1221 Hamer 1985 as Erythrodes vaginata drawing hmm;
Icones Planetarum Tropicarum plate 1533 Atwood 1993 as Erythrodes vaginata;
Orchids of Venezuela [An illustrated field guide] Vol. 3 Ramiro and Carnevali 2000 as Platythelys maculata drawing fide;
Harvard Pap. Bot. 5 #2: Carnevali etal. 2001 as Platythelys vaginata
Native Ecuadorian Orchids Vol 2 Dodson 2001 as Erythrodes maculata drawing fide;
Manual De Plants De Costa Rica Vol III Hammel, Grayum, Herrera and Zamora 2003 as Erythrodes maculata;
Manual De Plants De Costa Rica Vol III Hammel, Grayum, Herrera and Zamora 2003 as Erythrodes vaginata drawing good;
Orquidário 26: 90 Meneguzzo 2012 as Aspidogyne querceticola
Orquidário 26: 90 Meneguzzo 2012 as Aspidogyne maculata
Orquidário 26: 90 Meneguzzo 2012 as Aspidogyne mayoriana
Orquidário 26: 90 Meneguzzo 2012 as Aspidogyne sagrana
Orquidário 26: 91 Meneguzzo 2012 as Aspidogyne vaginata
Guia de Orquideas de Chiapas Carlos Rommel Beutelspacher Baigts 2013 as Platythelys maculata photo;
Orchid Genera and Species in Guatemala Archila, Szlachchetko, Chiron, Lipinska, Mystkowska and Bertolini 2018 photo fide;
Orchid Genera and Species in Guatemala Archila, Szlachchetko, Chiron, Lipinska, Mystkowska and Bertolini 2018 as Platythelys maculata
Orchid Genera and Species in Guatemala Archila, Szlachchetko, Chiron, Lipinska, Mystkowska and Bertolini 2018 as Platythelys vaginata
Rudolf Schlechter Die Orchideen Band 1C lieferung 40 pg 2492 - 2564 Brieger 2000 drawing fide;
Materials to the Orchid Flora of Colombia Vol 1: 543 pl 109-110 Szlachetko & Kolanowska 2017 as Platythelys maculata photos fide
Materials to the Orchid Flora of Colombia Vol 1: 375 Szlachetko & Kolanowska 2017 as Platythelys sagreana; drawing fide;
Vanishing Beauty, Native Costa Rican Orchids Vol 2 Lacaena to Pteroglossa Pupulin 2020 photo fide
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