Microchilus dolichostachys (Schltr.) Ormerod 2002 TYPE Drawing of Physurus dolichostachys by © Schlechter and The Plant Illustrations Website

Common Name The Long Inflorescence Microchilus

Flower Size

Found in the department of Valle de Cauca Colombia at elevations around 2000 meters as a large sized, cool to cold growing terrestrial with an erect, substrict, terete, glabrous, leafy stem carrying 6 to 7, erect-patent, obliquely elliptic, acuminate, glabrous, cuneate below into the petiolate base leaves that blooms on an erect, terminal, strict, few sheathed, glandular-pilose, peduncle to 10" [25 cm] long, rachis to 12" [30 cm] long, laxly many flowered inflorescence with suberect, lanceolate, acumminate floral bracts.

Synonyms Erythrodes dolichostachya (Schltr.) Ames 1922; *Physurus dolichostachys Schltr. 1920

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; *Repert. Spec. Nov. Regni Veg. Beih. 7: 70 Schlechter 1920 as Physurus dolichostachya; Studies in the Orchidaceae Ames 1922 as Erythrodes dolichostachya;

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