Microchilus commelinoides (Barb.Rodr.) E.C.Smidt & M.W.Chase 2021
Photo courtesy of © Dalton Holland Baptista and Orchidstudium
Photo by © Eric C. Smidt and Bot. J. Linn. Soc. 197: 338 E.C.Smidt & M.W.Chase 2021
Drawing by © Hoehne
Common Name or Meaning The Commelina-Like Microchilus
Flower Size 1/2" [1.25 cm]
Found in Minas Gerais, Espiritu Santo and Rio Grande do Sul states of Brazil as a small sized, cool growing terrestrial with an erect leafy stem carrying elliptical, acute, gradually narrowing below into the petiolate base leaves that blooms in the fall on an erect, 4" [10 cm] long, densely many flowered, conical inflorescence with broadly lanceolate, acute, as long as the flower floral bracts
Synonyms Aspidogyne commelinoides (Barb.Rodr.) Garay 1977, Erythrodes commelinoides (Barb.Rodr.) Ames 1922; *Physurus commelinoides Barb.Rodr. 1877
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
Gen. Spec. Orchid. 1: 193 Barb Rodr. 1877 as Physurus commelinoides
Studies in the family Orchidaceae Vol VII: 70 Ames 1922 as Erythrodes commelinoides;
Flora Brasilica Vol XII II 13-43: 346 Hoehne 1945 as Physurus commelinoides
Flora Brasilica Vol XII II 13-43: tab 186 Hoehne 1945 as Physurus commelinoides drawing ok;
Iconographia de Orchidaceae Do Brasil Hoehne 1949 as Physurus commelinoides;
Orchidaceae Brasilensis Vol 1: 131 Pabst & Dungs 1975 as Erythrodes commeliniodes
Orchidaceae Brasilensis Vol 1: 288 fig 528 Pabst & Dungs 1975 as Erythrodes commeliniodes drawing ok;
Bradea 2: 201 Garay 1977 as Aspidogyne commelinoides
Orchidees du Bresil As Orquideas da Serra Do Castelo Vol 1 Chiron & Bolsanello 2015 drawing/photo fide;
* Bot. J. Linn. Soc. 197: 338 E.C.Smidt & M.W.Chase 2021 photos fide
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