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

TYPE Drawing of Aspidogyne brachyrrhynchus by A Krol/Szlachetko & Kolanowska 2017

Common Name The Short Beaked Microchilus

Flower Size

Found in Venezuela without locational data as a fairly large terrestrial with a decumbent in the basal part, ascendent and very sparsely hairy above stem carrying ovate to ovate-lanceolate, acuminate, rounded to cuneate below into the petiolate base leaves that blooms on an erect, terminal, pilose towards the apex, 4.8" [12 cm] long, laxly few to several flowered inflorescence with shorter than the ovary floral bracts carrying white flowers with greenish tinged sepals.

Rchb.f compared the leaves and flower size of this species to Ludisia discolor

" Microchilus hyphaematicus and this species both share a deeply bilobed epichile but M brachyrrhynchis has flower segments more than twice as large, a longer spur, a thinner hypochile and obliquely oblanceolate-obtriangular to subspathulate petals with a rounded to obtuse apex. Moreover the petals of M hyphaematicus are narrowly ligulate to oblong." Szlachetko & Kolanowska

Synonyms Aspidogyne brachyrrhyncha (Rchb.f.) Garay 1977; Erythrodes brachyrhyncha (Rchb.f.) Ames 1922; *Physurus brachyrrhynchus Rchb.f. 1873

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;

Xenia Orchid. 2: 184 Rchb.f 1873 as Physurus brachyrrhynchus

Studies in the Orchidaceae 7: 68 Ames 1922 as Erythrodes brachyrhyncha

Bradea 2: 204 Garay 1977 as Aspidogyne brachyrrhyncha

Materials to the Orchid Flora of Colombia Vol 1: 421 Szlachetko & Kolanowska 2017 as Aspidogyne brachyrrhyncha drawing fide;

* Bot. J. Linn. Soc. 197: 337 E.C.Smidt & M.W.Chase 2021

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