Microchilus xystophylloides (Garay) E.C.Smidt & M.W.Chase 2021
Collection Sheet by © Ames
Type drawing by © Leslie Garay
Common Name The Shaft-Like Leaved Microchiluis
Flower Size .08" [2 mm]
Found in Magdalena, Risaralda, Cundinamarca and Cauca departments of Colombia and Loja and Zamora-Chinchipe provinces of Ecuador at elevations around 1600 to 2700 meters as a small sized, cool to cold growing terrestrial with a cauliform, ascending, repent rhizome becoming an erect, loosely stem carrying loosely many, narrowly lanceolate to ovate-lanceolate, acute to subacuminate, crisped margins, tapering towards the canaliculate, petiolate base leaves that blooms at most any time of the year on a filiform, erect, 7.2" [18 cm] long overall, peduncle provided with 3, remote sheathing bracts, rachis to 3.2" [8 cm] long, loosely 5 to 9 flowered inflorescence with lanceolate to setaceous-lanceolate, acuminate, about as long as the ovary floral bracts and carrying small, glabrous flowers with greyish yellow sepals and the petals and lip yellow-white.
"In general appearance the new species seems to be a miniature form of M xystophyllus differing in the shape of the lip, bilobed in M xystophyllus and anchoriform in the new concept. In natural position the lip is conduplicate-cucullate with the anchoriform tip reflexed and rolled inward." Garay 1958
Synonyms Aspidogyne xystophylloides (Garay) Ormerod 2007; *Erythrodes xystophylloides Garay 1958; Stephanothelys xystophylloides (Garay) Garay 1977
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
Bot. Mus. Leafl. 18: 193 Garay 1958 as Erythrodes xystophylloides drawing fide
Bradea 2: 200 Garay 1977 as Stephanothelys xystophylloides
Flora of Ecuador No 9 225[1] Garay 1978;
Icones Plantarum Tropicarum Plate 497 Dodson 1989 as Erythrodes xystophylloides drawing ok;
Rudolf Schlechter Die Orchideen Band 1C lieferung 40 pg 2492 - 2564 Brieger 2000 drawing fide; drawing fide;
Native Ecuadorian Orchids Vol 2 Dodson 2001 as Erythrodes xystophylloides drawing fide;
Harvard Pap. Bot. 11: 151 Ormerod 2007 as Aspidogyne xystophylloides
Materials to the Orchid Flora of Colombia Vol 1: 425 Szlachetko & Kolanowska 2017 as Aspidogyne xystophylloides drawing fide;
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