Microchilus harlingii (Ormerod) E.C.Smidt & M.W.Chase 2021

TYPE Drawing by © Paul Ormerod and The Epidendra Website

Common Name Harling's Micorchilus [American, original collector of species]

Flower Size .16" [4 mm]

Found in Morona-Santiago province of Ecuador in remnants of primary forests at elevations around 1600 meters as a small sized, cool growing terrestrial with an erect, terete stem carrying a rosette of 5, suborbicular, subacute, abruptly narrowing below into the subpetiolate base leaves that blooms in the spring on a terminal, erect, to 10.8" [to 27 cm] long, peduncle to 7.8" [19.5 cm] long, provided with 4, disintegrating sheathing bracts, rachis to 2.92" [7.3 cm] long, subdensely many flowered inflorescence with disintegrated floral bracts and carrying lax;ly externally pubescent flowers of unknown colors.

"Externally this species much resembles its Ecuadorian congener M sumacoensis Ormerod but it differs from that species in its flowers having a shorter .36 versus .56" (.9 vs. 1.4 mm), transversely rectangular (not hastate-trullate), and an ecallose labellum mesochile." Ormerod 2009

Synonyms *Aspidogyne harlingii Ormerod 2009

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;

Harvard Pap. Bot. 14(2): 115 Ormerod & M.A.Blanco 2009 as Aspidogyne harlingii

Harvard Pap. Bot. 14(2): 112, fig 2 Ormerod & M.A.Blanco 2009 as Aspidogyne harlingii drawing fide

* Bot. J. Linn. Soc. 197: 340 E.C.Smidt & M.W.Chase 2021

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