Microchilus casillasii (R.González) E.C.Smidt & M.W.Chase 2021

TYPE Drawing of Kreodanthus casillasii by © Roberto Gonzalez T. and the UNA NUEVA ESPECIE DE KREODANTHUS (ORCHIDACEAE-GOODYERINAE) DEL OCCIDENTE DE MEXICO Y EL SALVADOR Acta Bot. Mex. 31: 35 R. Gonzales 1995

Common Name Casilla's Microchilus [Mexican Orchid Collector current]

Flower Size .12" [3 mm]

Found in Jalisco, Michoacan, Guerrero, Oaxaca and Chiapas states of Mexico, Guatemala and El Salvador in pine oak forests at elevations of 1400 to 1800 meters as a medium sized, cool growing epiphyte with an elongate, leafy apically stem carrying 4 to 8, not in a rosette, lightly coriaceous, ascending, vivid green with or without silver tesselation, elliptic to ovate-lanceolate to lanceolate, acute, rounded below into the laminar, alate, petiolate base leaves that blooms in the fall on a terminal, erect, densely pubescent, thin, 2 to 5.4" [5 to 13.5 cm] long, cylindrical towards the apex, laxly many flowered inflorescence with 4 to 8, adpressed, glandular-pubescent below, longer to shorter than the ovary floral bracts and carrying many short-lived flowers

Synonyms *Kreodanthus casillasii R.González 1995

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;

Las Orquedias De El Salvador Vol 1 Hamer 1974 as Erythrodes secunda drawing/photo fide;

UNA NUEVA ESPECIE DE KREODANTHUS (ORCHIDACEAE-GOODYERINAE) DEL OCCIDENTE DE MEXICO Y EL SALVADOR Acta Bot. Mex. 31: 34 R. Gonzales 1995 as Kreodanthus casillasii

UNA NUEVA ESPECIE DE KREODANTHUS (ORCHIDACEAE-GOODYERINAE) DEL OCCIDENTE DE MEXICO Y EL SALVADOR Acta Bot. Mex. 31: 34 R. Gonzales 1995 as Kreodanthus casillasii drawing fide

* Bot. J. Linn. Soc. 197: 338E C.Smidt & M.W.Chase 2021 ;

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