Microchilus erythrodoides (Schltr.) Ormerod 2002 Photo by © John Varigos and His Orchid webpage

Common Name The Erythrodes-Like Microchilus

Flower Size

Found in Colombia and Venezuela as a medium sized terrestrial with an erect, glabrous stem carrying 4 to 5, erect-patent, obliquely elliptic, acuminate, cuneate below into the petiolate bsae leaves that blooms on an erect, 12" [30 cm] long, densely many flowered inflorescence with 4 to 5, acuminate, glandular-hairy bracts and erect-patent, ovate-lanceolate, acuminate floral bracts

Synonyms Erythrodes erythrodoides (Schltr.) Ames 1922; *Physurus erythrodoides Schltr. 1920

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Die Orchideen der Sudamerikanischen Kordillerenstaaten II Colombia Schlechter 1920 as Physurus erythrodoides

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