Microchilus hylibates (Rchb.f.) E.C.Smidt & M.W.Chase 2021
Photo by © Alexandre Medeiros © and Orquidario Virtual website
Drawing by © Cogniaux and Fl. Bras. 3(4): tab 55 Cogniaux 1895
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Common Name The Forest Microchilus
Flower Size .36" [9 mm]
Found in south eastern Brazil as a small sized, warm to cool growing terrestrial with an erect, glabrous, leafy stem carrying 7 to 8, membraneous, grading larger above, elliptic, acute, basally clasping leaves that blooms in the summer on an erect, terminal, 1.5" [3.75 cm] long, several flowered inflorescnece with erect, slightly membraneous, , dry pale brown, single nerved, slightly puberulous, shorter to longer than the ovary floral bracts
Synonyms Aspidogyne hylibates (Rchb.f.) Garay 1977; Erythrodes hylibates (Rchb.f.) Garay & Pabst 1957; Erythrodes lacteola (Barb.Rodr.) Ames 1922; Physurus humilis Cogn. 1895; *Physurus hylibates Rchb.f. 1881; Physurus lacteolus Barb.Rodr. 1882;
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
Otia Bot. Hamburg.: 83 Rchb.f 1881 as Physurus hylibates
Gen. Spec. Orchid. 2: 292 Barb Rodr. 1882 as Physurus lacteolus
Fl. Bras. 3(4): 232 Cogniaux 1895 as Physurus humilis nom. illeg.
Fl. Bras. 3(4): tab 55 Cogniaux 1895 as Physurus humilis nom. illeg. drawing fide
Studies in the family Orchidaceae Vol VII: 71 Ames 1922 as Erythrodes lacteola;
Flora Brasilica Vol XII II 13-43: 354 Hoehne 1945 as Physurus lacteolus
Flora Brasilica Vol XII II 13-43: tab 191 fig 2 Hoehne 1945 as Physurus lacteolus drawing ok;
Flora Brasilica Vol XII II 13-43: 366 Hoehne 1945 as Physurus hylibates;
Orquídea (Rio de Janeiro) 18: 214 Garay & Pabst 1957 as Erythrodes hylibates
Orchidaceae Brasilensis Vol 1: 131 Pabst & Dungs 1975 as Erythrodes hylibates
Orchidaceae Brasilensis Vol 1: 287 fig 520 Pabst & Dungs 1975 as Erythrodes hylibatesdrawing fide; Bradea 2: 202 Garay 1977 as Aspidogyne hylibates
Orchidees du Bresil As Orquideas da Serra Do Castelo Vol 1 Chiron & Bolsanello 2015 drawing good/photo fide;
* Bot. J. Linn. Soc. 197: 340 E.C.Smidt & M.W.Chase 2021
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