Microchilus ovalis Ormerod 2007

TYPE Drawing by Paul Ormerod and Harvard Pap. Bot. 9: 165 fig 21 Ormerod 2005

LATER

Common NameThe Oval Microchilus

Flower Size .12" [3 mm]

Found in the Darien of eastern Panama at elevations above 800 to 900 meters as a small sized, warm growing terrestrial with an erect, terete stem carrying laxly 3 to 4, obliquely oblong-elliptic, subacuminate, petiolate base leaves that blooms in the later spring on an erect, terminal, pubescent, 10.48" [26.1 cm] long, peduncle 6.6" [16.5 cm] long, provided with 9 lax, scattered sheathing bracts, rachis 3.8" [9.6 cm] long, subdensely many flowered inflorescence with ovate-lanceolate, acute, longer than than the the ovary floral bracts and carrying externally pubescent, white flowers.

"This species is similar to Microchilus maasii but its flowers have an entire transversely oblong-elliptic labellum epichile and a shorter .12" [3 mm] long column. In M. maasii the epichile is bilobed and the column is .136 to .157" [3.4 to 3.85 mm] long." Ormerod 2007

Synonyms

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;

* Harvard Pap. Bot. 11: 164 Ormerod 2007

Harvard Pap. Bot. 9: 165 fig 21 Ormerod 2005 drawing fide;

Materials to the Orchid Flora of Colombia Vol 1: 342 Szlachetko & Kolanowska 2017 drawing fide

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