Microchilus stenocentron (Schltr.) E.C.Smidt & M.W.Chase 2021
Drawing by © A Krol/Szlach. & Kolan. 2017
Common Name The Modest Microchilus
Flower Size
Found in Colombia and Junin department of Peru as a small sized, terrestrial with a decumbent rhizome giving rise to an erect to suberect, glabrous stem carrying 5, obliquely elliptic, acuminate, transversed by a light, either white or yellow, central band, rounded cuneate below and dilated into the short, petiolate base leaves that blooms on a terminal, erect, short, peduncle 1.2" [3 cm] long, provided with a few sheathing bracts, rachis erect, minutely glandular-puberulent, to 2.8" [7 cm] long, subsecund, densely many flowered inflorescence and carryijg rateher small, subglabrous flowers.
"This species is easily identified by its small, long, thin spurred flowers and the labellum shape. The hypochile of M stenocentron is terminated on each side by porrect rounded lobules, then abruptly contracted and finally dilated into a short-clawed, subquadrate-reniform epichile and the spur is narrowly cylindrical. The hypochile of M foliosa is ovate in outline, truncate at the apex and the spur is rather narrowly cylindrical-clavate. The other species that can be confused with M stenocentron is Microchilus confusus, but the later has larger flowers with a much longer spur."Szlachetko & Kolanowska 2017
"According to the available material, it appears as if the leaves are transversed by a light, either white or yellow, central band." Schlechter 1921
Synonyms Aspidogyne stenocentron (Schltr.) Szlach. & Kolan. 2017; Erythrodes stenocentron (Schltr.) Ames 1922; Physurus stenocentron Schltr. 1921
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
Repert. Spec. Nov. Regni Veg. Beih. 9: 60 Schlechter 1921 as Physurus stenocentron
Orchidaceae 7: 75 Ames 1922 as Erythrodes stenocentron
Harvard Papaers in Botany vol 14, No. 2: 114 Ormerod 2009 as synonym of Aspidogyne foliosa;
Materials to the Orchid Flora of Colombia Vol 1: 409 Szlachetko & Kolanowska 2017 as Aspidogyne stenocentron drawing fide;
* Bot. J. Linn. Soc. 197: 344 E.C.Smidt & M.W.Chase 2021
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