Microchilus hetaerioides (Schltr.) Ormerod 2002

TYPE Drawing of Physurus hetaerioides by © Schlechter

Common Name The Hetaeria-Like Microchilus

Flower Size .12" [3 mm]

Found in Cauca department of Colombia in damp forests at elevations around 1300 meters as a medium sized, cool growing terrestrial with a cauliform, flexuous, rhizome giving rise to an erect, terete, glabrous stem carrying 6 to 7, erect-patent, obliquely elliptic, acuminate, cuneate below into the petiolate base leaves that blooms on an erect, terminal, densely to shortly glandulous-pilose, 8.8" [22 cm] long, peduncle provided with a few sheathing bracts, rachis " [15 cm] long, densely many flowered inflorescence with erect-patent, elliptic-lanceolate, acuminate, slightly shorter than the the ovary floral bracts.

"The species is most closely related to M dolichostachys but is easily distinguished externally by its larger leaves and dense, shorter inflorescence." Schlechter 1920

Synonyms Erythrodes hetaerioides (Schltr.) Ames 1922; Physurus hetaerioides Schltr. 1920

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;

Repert. Spec. Nov. Regni Veg. Beih. 7: 72 Schlechter 1920 as Physurus hetaerioides

Orchidaceae 7: 70 Ames 1922 as Erythrodes hetaerioides

* Lindleyana 17: 217 Ormerod 2002;

Materials to the Orchid Flora of Colombia Vol 1: 349 Szlachetko & Kolanowska 2017 drawing fide;

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