Microchilus platensis (Hauman) E.C.Smidt & M.W.Chase 2021
Photo by © José A. Radins and The Flora de Missiones Website
Drawing of Physurus platensis by © Hoehne
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Common Name The Rio Plata Microchilus
Flower Size .2" [5 mm]
Found in southeastern Brazil and northeastern Argentina as a small sized, cool to cold growing terrestrial with 5 to 6, more or less aggregate, ovate to ovate-lanceolate, acute, petiolate base leaves that blooms in the late winter and early spring on an erect, 4 sheathed, pubescent, 8" [20 cm] long overall, 10 to 20 flowered inflorescence.
Synonyms Aspidogyne platensis (Hauman) Meneguzzo 2012; Erythrodes platensis (Hauman) L.O.Williams 1938; *Physurus platensis Hauman 1917; Platythelys platensis (Hauman) Garay 1977
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
Anales Mus. Nac. Hist. Nat. Buenos Aires 29: 370 Hauman 1917 as Physurus platensis
Flora Brasilica Vol XII II 13-43: 365 Hoehne 1945 as Physurus platensis
Flora Brasilica Vol XII II 13-43:tab 202 Hoehne 1945 as Physurus platensis drawing good
Bot. Mus. Leafl. 5: 143 L O Williams 1938 as Erythrodes platensis
Bradea 2: 197 Garay 1977 as Platythelys platensis
Orquidário 26: 90 Meneguzzo 2012 as Aspidogyne platensis
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