Microchilus miravalleanus (Szlach. & Kolan.) E.C.Smidt & M.W.Chase 2021

TYPE Drawing by © A Krol and Materials to the Orchid Flora of Colombia Vol 1: 432 2017

Common Name The Finca Miravalles Microchilus

Flower Size

Found in Huila department of Colombia at elevations around 2900 meters as a miniature to small sized, cold growing terrestrial with an erect, terete, leafy stem carrying 7, ovate-lanceolate, acuminate, petiolate base leaves that blooms in the winter on an erect, terminal, glandular, provided with 2 sheathing bracts, to 4 flowered inflorescence with ovate-lanceolate, shorter to as long as the ovary floral bracts and carrying basally sparsely externally pubescent flowers.

"The only species in what was the genus Aspidogyne with the lip not clearly divided into hypochile and epichile and oblong-ovate in general outline, much expanded in the apical third, and with 2 keels along the margins, then attenuate towards the suborbicular, acuminate apex. M miravalleanus is similar in some respects to Aspidogyne rariflora but can be separated by the cylindrical spur, swollen near the middle in the new species and ellipsoid-ovoid in M rariflora and the petals that are linear in the lower part and expanded above into an obliquely elliptic-ovate, subacute, falcate lamina versus liner to oblanceolate-linear, acute to subacute and falcate." Szlachetko & Kolanowska 2017

Synonyms Aspidogyne miravalleana Szlach. & Kolan 2017

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;

Materials to the Orchid Flora of Colombia Vol 1: 432 Szlachetko & Kolanowska 2017 as Aspidogyne miravallensis drawing fide;

* Bot. J. Linn. Soc. 197: 342 E.C.Smidt & M.W.Chase 2021;

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