Microchilus secundus (Ames) E.C.Smidt & M.W.Chase 2021
Photo/ by © Alexander Hirtz
Photo/Drawing by © Hamer
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EARLIER
Common Name The Secund Microchilus
Flower Size .2" [5 mm]
Found in Oaxaca and Chiapas states of Mexico, El Salvador and Panama in wet forests at elevations of 1950 to 2100 meters as a small sized, cool to cold growing terrestrial with a decumbent becoming erect-ascending, green, shortly pubescent stem carrying 5, elliptic-lanceolate, acute to acuminate, undulate margin, dark green to pale green, conspicuous central nerve, sometimes white carinate beneath, dilated below into the clasping base leaves that blooms in the late summer and earlier fall on a terminal, erect, cylindrical, peduncle 2.4" [6 cm] long, rachis 1.6" [4 cm] long, many flowered inflorescence with triangular, glabrous, as long as the ovary floral bracts and carrying white and brownish olive flowers.
"The species has a lip longer than wide, relatively thin, somewhat apically constricted and not found in any other Colombian species." Szlachetko & Kolanowska 2017
Synonyms Erythrodes secunda (Ames) Ames 1915; Kreodanthus secundus (Ames) Garay 1977; *Physurus secundus Ames 1908
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
Studies in the Family Orchidaceae Fascile 2: 260 Ames 1908 as Physurus secundus;
Studies in the Family Orchidaceae Vol 3: 32 Ames 1908 as Physurus secundus
Studies in the Family Orchidaceae Vol 3: 34 Ames 1908 as Physurus secundus drawing fide;
Studies in the Family Orchidaceae Vol 5 pg 28 Ames 1915 as Erythrodes secundus;
Las Orquedias de El Salvador Vol 1 Hamer 1974 as Erythrodes secunda drawing/photo fide;
Bradea 2: 199 Garay 1977 as Kreodanthus secundus
Selbyana Vol 10: 357 1988 drawing fide;
Materials to the Orchid Flora of Colombia Vol 1: 443 Szlachetko & Kolanowska 2017 as Kreodanthus secundus drawing fide;
Materials to the Orchid Flora of Colombia Vol 1: 546 pl 122 Szlachetko & Kolanowska 2017 as Kreodanthus secundus photo fide;
Orchid Genera and Speceis in Guatemala Archila, Szlachchetko, Chiron, Lipinska, Mystkowska and Bertolini 2018 photo ok
* Bot. J. Linn. Soc. 197: 343 E.C.Smidt & M.W.Chase 2021
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