Microchilus ortgiesii (Rchb.f.) Ormerod 2002

Drawings by © A Krol and Materials to the Orchid Flora of Colombia Vol 1: 278 Szlachetko & Kolanowska 2017

Deep shade Cold LATERSpring

Common Name Ortgies' Microchilus [German Horticulturist and Nurseryman 1829 - 1916

Flower Size

Found in Norte de Santander department of Colombia in dense woods at elevations around 2150 meters as a small to medium sized, cold growing terrestrial with an erect, rather delicate, basally leafy stem carrying 4 to 6, obliquely elliptic, ovate to lanceolate-elliptic, acuminate, basally rounded petiolate leaves that blooms in the later spring on an erect, terminal, 1.2 to 1.8" [3 to 4.5 cm] long, densely many flowered inflorescence with ovate-lanceolate, acuminate, glabrous, , longer than the ovary floral bracts and carrying small flowers with the sepals rather sparsely glandular.

"Differs from others in the subgroup by having a relatively narrow hypochile, a sagittate-subcordate epichile and a more or less curved spur. A somewhat similar spur is found in M parvilabrum but it has a completely different lip with the epichile ovate-deltoid and narrower than the hypochile."

Synonyms Anoectochilus ortgiesii Van Geert 1873; Erythrodes ortgiesii (Van Geert) Garay 1956; *Physurus ortgiesii Rchb.f. 1873

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;

Gard. Chron. 1873: 177 Rchb.f 1873 as Physurus ortgiesii

Nursery Cat. (Auguste Van Geert) 70: ? Van Geert 1873 as Anoectochilus ortgiesii

Canad. J. Bot. 34: 249 Garay 1956 as Erythrodes ortgiesii

* Lindleyana 17: 219 Ormerod 2002

Materials to the Orchid Flora of Colombia Vol 1: 278 Szlachetko & Kolanowska 2017 drawing fide;

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