Microchilus uribei Szlach. & Kolan. 2014

TYPE Drawing by A Krol/Szlachetko & Kolanowska 2017

LATE EARLY

Common Name Uribe's Microchilus [L. Uribe U. Colombian Collector of the type currrent]

Flower Size .64" [1.7 mm]

Found in Boyaca department of Colombia in thick forests at elevations around 1750 meters as a large sized, cool growing terrestrial with an erect, very delicate, glabrous stem carrying 7 in the lower half of the stem, obliquely ovate-lanceolate, long-acuminate, petiolate base leaves that blooms in the late winter and early spring on an erect, terminal, not fully mature in the herbarium speciemen, 2.6" [6.5 cm] long, densely many flowered inflorescence with ovate-lanceolate, somewhat oblique, sparsely glandular,slightly shorter than the ovary floral bracts and carrying small, white flowers.

"Similar to M plantagineus , M vesicifer, M zeuxinoides and M parvilabrum but separable from them all by the relatively small, obscure lip epipchile. The presence of the distinct constriction between the lip epichile and hypochile and the cordatre-saggitate epichile are unique to the new spfdeies. The flowers of M uribei are relatively small and its spur is narrowly cylindrical-clavate, blunt ands slightly shorter than the ovary. " Szlachetko & Kolanowska 2017

Synonyms

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;

*Pl. Biosystems 148: 903 Szlach. & Kolan. 2014

Materials to the Orchid Flora of Colombia Vol 1: 273 Szlachetko & Kolanowska 2017

Materials to the Orchid Flora of Colombia Vol 1: 274 Szlachetko & Kolanowska 2017 drawing fide;

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