Microchilus loxoglottis (Rchb.f.) E.C.Smidt & M.W.Chase 2021

TYPE Drawing of Physurus loxoglottis by © Dr. Heinrich Gustav Reichenbach and The Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria Website

Common Name The Slanting Lip Kreodanthus

Flower Size

Found in Guatemala on roadside bank as a small sized, cold growing terrestrial with a terete rhizome giving rise to an erect, stem carrying 3, oblong, acute, petiolate base leaves that blooms in the winter on a terminal, erect, pubescent, provided with sheathing bracts, subcylindical, several flowered inflorescence with oblong-lanceolate, pilose floral bracts..

Synonyms Erythrodes loxoglottis (Rchb.f.) Ames 1922; Kreodanthus loxoglottis (Rchb.f.) Garay 1977; *Physurus loxoglottis Rchb.f. 1866

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI

Beitr. Orchid.-K. C. Amer.: 64 Rchb.f 1866 as Physurus loxoglottis

Studies in the family Orchidaceae Vol VII: 71 Ames 1922 as Erythrodes loxoglottis;

Orchids of Guatemala and Belize Ames & Corell 1952 as Erythrodes loxoglottis;

Bradea 2: 199 Garay 1977 as Kreodanthus loxoglottis

Orchid Genera and Species in Guatemala Archila, Szlachchetko, Chiron, Lipinska, Mystkowska and Bertolini 2018

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

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