Microchilus kuczynskii (Porsch) E.C.Smidt & M.W.Chase 2021 Photo by © Gustavo Righelato
Photos courtesy of Alejandro Taborda ©
Drawing of Physurus kuczynskii by © Hoehne and Flora Brasilica Fasc 8 Vol XIL II: tab 192 Hoehne 1945
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Common Name Kuczynski's Microchilus - In Argentina - Hierba de la cordialidad
Flower Size .36" [9 mm]
Found in Argentina, Paraguay and Brazil in leaf litter at elevations around 300 to 350 meters as a mini-miniature sized, cool to cold growing terrestro-lithophyte with a repent, fleshy rhizome giving rise to a short, erect stem carrying 5, undulate margin, yellowish to dark green and sometimes reticulated in silver above and greyish below leaves held in a lax rosette that blooms in the late spring and summer on an erect, to 8" [to 20 cm] long, racemose, 5 to 25 flowered inflorescence.
Synonyms Aspidogyne kuczynskii (Porsch) Garay 1977; Erythrodes dichopetala (Kraenzl.) L.O.Williams 1938; Erythrodes kuczynskii (Porsch) Garay 1954; Physurus dichopetalus Kraenzl. 1911; Physurus kuczynskii Porsch 1905
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
Oesterr. Bot. Z. 55: 152 Porsch 1905 as Physurus kuczynskii
Kongl. Svenska Vetensk. Acad. Handl., n.f., 46(10): 41 Kraenzlin 1911 as Physurus dichopetalus
Kongl. Svenska Vetensk. Acad. Handl., n.f., 46(10): tab 7 fig 5 Kraenzlin 1911 as Physurus dichopetalus drawing fide
Repert. Spec. Nov. Regni Veg. Beih. 35: 43 Schlechter 1925 as Physurus kuczynskii;
Bot. Mus. Leafl. 6: 138 L O Williams 1938 as Erythrodes dichopetala
* Flora Brasilica Vol XII II 13-43: 355 Hoehne 1945 as Physurus kuczynskii
Flora Brasilica Vol XII II 13-43: tab 192 Hoehne 1945 as Physurus kuczynskii drawing ok;
Flora Brasilica Vol XII II 13-43: 358 Hoehne 1945 as Physurus dichopetalus
Flora Brasilica Vol XII II 13-43: tab197 fig 1 Hoehne 1945 as Physurus dichopetalus drawing fide;
Comun. Inst. Nac. Invest. Ci. Nat., Ser. Ci. Bot. 1(6): 7 Garay 1954 as Erythrodes kuczynskii
Orchidaceae Brasilensis Vol 1: 131 Pabst & Dungs 1975 as Erythrodes kuczynskii
Orchidaceae Brasilensis Vol 1: 288 fig 529 Pabst & Dungs 1975 as Erythrodes kuczynskii drawing good;
Bradea 2: 203 Garay 1977 as Aspidogyne kuczynskii
Genera Orchidacearum Vol 3 Orchiodese Part 2 Pridgeon, Cribb, Chase & Rasmussen 2003 drawing good;
100 Orquideas Argentinas Freuler 2005 photo fide;
* Bot. J. Linn. Soc. 197: 340 E.C.Smidt & M.W.Chase 2021
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