Microchilus oroensis (Dodson) Ormerod 2007

TYPE Drawing of Erythrodes oroensis by © Dodson and The Epidendra Website

Common Name The El Oro Microchilus [A Province of Ecuador]

Flower Size .24" [6 mm]

Found in Ecuador in wet or dry cloud forests at elevations around 1200 to 1600 meters as a small sized, cool growing terrestrial with a recumbent becoming erect, occasionally branched stem carrying 5 to 7, elliptic-acuminate, cuneate below into the canaliculate petiolate base leaves that blooms in the fall on an erect, terminal, to 12" [30 cm] long, 3 to 4 loosely adpressed sheaths, mnany flowered inflorescence with narrowly ovate, acute, longer than the ovary floral bracts and carrying small flowers with green brown sepals, white petals and lip and a yellow spur.

"This species has the largest flowers in the genus and is most similar to Microchilus crassibasis but it has smaller flowers. It also resembles Microchilus major but M oroensis has elliptic, dark green leaves, the hypochile of the lip is oblong-pandurate and the fleshy, ovate callus is seen between the lobules of the epichile." Szlachetko & Kolanowska 2017

Synonyms *Erythrodes oroensis Dodson 1994

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;

Orquideologia Vol 19 #2 pg 147 Dodson 1994 as Erythrodes oroensis drawing fide;

Native Ecuadorian Orchids Vol 2 Dodson 2001 as Erythrodes oroensis drawing fide;

* Harvard Papers in Botany, Vol. 11, No. 2: 164 Ormerod 2007

Materials to the Orchid Flora of Colombia Vol 1: 283 Szlachetko & Kolanowska 2017 drawing fide;

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