Microchilus schlechterianus (Hoehne) E.C.Smidt & M.W.Chase 2021

Drawing by © Ormerod and The Epidendra Website

Common Name Schlechter's Microchilus [German Botanist 1900's]

Flower Size

Found in Sao Paulo and Parana states of Brazil at elevations around 100 to 200 meters as a miniature to small sized, warm to cool growing terrestrial with a decumbent stem becoming erect above carrying several, erect-patent, oval-elliptic, petiolate base leaves that blooms in the spring on a terminal, erect, pubescent, provided with 3 to 5 sheathing bracts, 4 to 10" [10 to 25 cm] long, 5 to 17 flowered inflorescence with ovate-lanceolate, acuminate, margins ciliate, shorter to longer than the ovary floral bracts and carrying sessile, erect-patent, whitish flowers.

Synonyms Aspidogyne schlechteriana (Hoehne) Meneguzzo 2012; Erythrodes schlechteriana (Hoehne) Pabst 1956; Physurus foliosus Schltr. ex Porto & Brade 1938 publ. 1940; *Physurus schlechterianus Hoehne 1945; Platythelys schlechteriana (Hoehne) Garay 1977

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;

Anais Reunião Sul-Amer. Bot. 3: 34 Schltr. ex porto & Brade 1938 publ. 1939 as Physurus foliosus nom. illeg.

* Flora Brasilica Vol XII II 13-43: 354 Hoehne 1945 as Physurus schlechteriana

Flora Brasilica Vol XII II 13-43: tab 184 fig 2 Hoehne 1945 as Physurus schlechteriana drawing fide;

Sellowia 7: 176 Pabst 1956 as Erythrodes schlechteriana

Orchidaceae Brasilensis Vol 1: 132 Pabst & Dungs 1975 as Erythrodes schlechteriana

Orchidaceae Brasilensis Vol 1: 289 fig 537 Pabst & Dungs 1975 as Erythrodes schlechteriana drawing ok

Bradea 2: 198 Garay 1977 as Platythelys schlechteriana;

Orquidário 26: 90 Meneguzzo 2012 as Aspidogyne schlechteriana

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