Microchilus tuerckheimii (Schltr.) E.C.Smidt & M.W.Chase 2021 A
Photos by © J Gonzalez and The Mobot Manual de Plantas de Costa Rica Website
Drawings by © Tuerckheim and The Epidendra Website
Common Name Tuerckheim's Microchilus [German Orchid Collector early 1900's]
Flower Size .2" [5 mm]
Found in Guatemala, Honduras, Costa Rica, Panama and Ecuador at elevations around 350 meters as a medium sized, hot growing terrestrial with a decumbent rhizome becoming erect stem carrying 4 to 6, suberectly spreading, obliquely elliptic, abruptly acuminate, tapering below into the petiolate base leaves that blooms in the summer and fall on an erect, terminal, slender, to 14" [35 cm] long overall, rachis to 7" [3.5 cm] long, cylindric, subdensely many flowered inflorescence with lanceolate, acuminate, longer than the ovary floral bracts and carrying, externally sparingly pubescent, pink to brownish flowers marked with white.
The most diagnostic character of this species is the lip spur which is widest at the apex and is is twice shorter than the lip." Szlachetko & Kolanowska 2017
Synonyms Aspidogyne tuerckheimii (Schltr.) Garay 1977; Erythrodes polygonata (Ames) Ames 1915; Erythrodes tuerckheimii (Schltr.) Ames 1922; Physurus polygonatus Ames 1908; *Physurus tuerckheimii Schltr. 1906
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
Repert. Spec. Nov. Regni Veg. 2: 132 Schelchter 1906 as Physurus tuerckheimii
Studies in the Family Orchidaceae Fascile 2: 259 Ames 1908 as Physurus polygonatus;
Studies in the Family Orchidaceae Vol 3: 35 Ames 1908 as Physurus polygonatus drawing fide;
Studies in the Family Orchidaceae Vol 5: 28 Ames 1908 as Erythrodes polygonatus
Studies in the family Orchidaceae Vol VII: 77 Ames 1922 as Erythrodes tuerkheimii;
Bradea 2: 204 Garay 1977 as Aspidogyne tuerckheimii
Flora of Ecuador No 9 225[1] Garay 1978 as Erythrodes tuerckheimii drawing ok;
Icones Plantarum Tropicarum Plate 1301 Dodson 1989 drawing good;
Field Guide to the Orchids of Costa Rica and Panama Dressler 1993
AOS Bulletin Vol 72 #10 2003 photo not = A roseoalba;
Manual De Plants De Costa Rica Vol III Hammel, Grayum, Herrera and Zamora 2003 as Erythrodes tuerkheimii drawing good;
Genera Orchidacearum Vol 3 Orchiodese Part 2 Pridgeon, Cribb, Chase & Rasmussen 2003 photo good;
Vanishing Beauty, Native Costa Rican Orchids Vol 1 Pupulin 2005 photo fide;
Materials to the Orchid Flora of Colombia Vol 1: 410 Szlachetko & Kolanowska 2017 drawing fide;
Orchid Genera and Species in Guatemala Archila, Szlachchetko, Chiron, Lipinska, Mystkowska and Bertolini 2018 as Acropera galetea
* Bot. J. Linn. Soc. 197: 344 E.C.Smidt & M.W.Chase 2021
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