Microchilus longicornu (Cogn.) E.C.Smidt & M.W.Chase 2021

Photo by © Marcelo Rodrigues

Drawing

Drawing by © Schlechter

Common Name The Long Spur Microchilus

Flower Size .2" [5 mm]

Found in Guyana, Surinam and Brazil as a medium sized, hot to cool growing terrestrial with an elongate, densely pilose rhizome giving rise to an ascending then erect, terete, glabrous, leafy stem carrying 3 to 4, erect, patent, obliquely elliptic, acute to acuminate, glabrous, pseudopetiolate base leaves that blooms in the winter on an erect, slightly pubescent, peduncle 2.8" [7 cm] long, provided with 3 to 4, glanulous-pilose sheathing bracts, rachis, 6" [15 cm] long, cylindrical, densely many flowered inflorescence with erect-patent, lanceolate, acuminate, longer than below, shorter than the ovary above floral bracts and carrying sparsely gladular-pilose, erect-patent flowers.

Synonyms Aspidogyne longicornu (Cogn.) Garay 1977; Erythrodes longicornu (Cogn.) Ames 1915; Physurus longicalcaratus Schltr. 1922; *Physurus longicornu Cogn. 1906 publ. 1907;

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;

Bull. Soc. Roy. Bot. Belgique 43: 298 Cogniaux 1906 publ. 1907 as Physurus longicornu

Orchidaceae 5: 28 Ames 1915 as Erythrodes longicornu

Anexos Mem. Inst. Butantan, Secē. Bot. 1(4): 35 Schlechter 1922 as Physurus longicalcaratus

Anexos Mem. Inst. Butantan, Secē. Bot. 1(4): Tab 6 fig 2 Schlechter 1922 as Physurus longicalcaratus drawing fide

Flora Brasilica Vol XII II 13-43: 347 Hoehne 1945 as Physurus longicalcaratus;

Flora Brasilica Vol XII II 13-43: tab 188 Hoehne 1945 as Physurus longicalcaratus drawing fide

Flora Brasilica Vol XII II 13-43: 347 Hoehne 1945 as Physurus longicornu

Iconographia de Orchidaceae Do Brasil Hoehne 1949 as Physurus longicalcaratus;

Orchidaceae Brasilensis Vol 1: 131 Pabst & Dungs 1975 as Erythrodes longicorna drawing good;

Orchidaceae Brasilensis Vol 1: 288 fig 523 Pabst & Dungs 1975 as Erythrodes longicorna drawing fide

Bradea 2: 202 Garay 1977 as Aspidogyne longicornu

Orchidees du Bresil As Orquideas da Serra Do Castelo Vol 1 Chiron & Bolsanello 2015 draw ing/photo fide

* Bot. J. Linn. Soc. 197: 341 E.C.Smidt & M.W.Chase 2021

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