Microchilus hughjonesii Ormerod 2005

TYPE Drawing by Paul Ormerod and Harvard Pap. Bot. 9: 407 fig 19 Ormerod 2005

LATER

Common Name Hugh Jones's Microchilus [Collector of the type ]

Flower Size .12" [3 mm]

Found in Valle de Cauca department of Colombia in woodlands at elevations around 600 meters as a small to medium sized, warm growing terrestrial with a prostrate, terete rhizome giving rise to an erect terete stem carrying laxly 5 to 6, obliquely ovate-elliptic, subacuminate, petiolate base leaves that blooms in the later summer on an erect, terminal, pubescent, 7.32" [18.3 cm] long, peduncle 3.72" [9.3 cm] long provided with 3, scattered, acute sheathing bracts, rachis 3.6" [9 cm] long, laxly about 12 flowered inflorescence with ovate-lanceolate, acute, longer than the the ovary floral bracts and carrying externally pubescent white flowers.

"I am not sure about the relationship of this species to other taxa in Microchilus. In its habit it is rather similar to the Colombian M. putumayoensis , but it has a less flowered, laxer inflorescence; the flowers have a slightly longer (.16 versus .12" [4 vs. 3 mm]) spur; and the labellum has a subanchoriform (not transversely oblong) epichile." Ormerod 2005

Synonyms

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;

Gen. Orchidacearum 3: Fig. 151.1.200 Garay, Ormerod and Cribb in Pridgeon et al drawing fide

* Harvard Pap. Bot. 9: 408 Ormerod 2005

Harvard Pap. Bot. 9: 407 fig 19Ormerod 2005 drawing fide;

Materials to the Orchid Flora of Colombia Vol 1: 289 Szlachetko & Kolanowska 2017 drawing fide;

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