Microchilus boliviensis (Cogn.) E.C.Smidt & M.W.Chase 2021
Plant and Flowers in situ Ecuador
Photos by © Andreas Kay and his Flickr Orchid Photo Website
Original Drawing by © Padre Pedro Ortiz Conserved at the Herbario de la Universidad Javeriana, Bogota Colombia
Common Name The Bolivian Microchilus
Flower Size .24" [6 mm]
Found in Colombia, Ecuador, Peru and Bolivia at elevations of 800 to 2100 meters as a medium to large sized, warm to cool growing terrestrial and occasional epiphyte low to the ground with an at first ascending then suberect, robust leafy throughout stem carrying ovate-lanceolate, acuminate, basally tapering into the canaliculate, vaginate, petiolate base leaves that blooms in the winter and spring on an erect, to 1.6" [4 cm] long, peduncle, rachis to 7" [17.5 cm] long, densely many flowered inflorescence with lanceolate, acuminate, longer than the ovary floral bracts.
Padre Ortiz drew this species and called it Erythrodes boliviensis but this name has not been officially published.?
SynonymsAspidogyne boliviensis (Cogn.) Garay 1977; Erythrodes boliviensis (Cogn.) Dodson & M.W. Chase ?; Erythrodes cylindrostachys Garay 1958; *Physurus boliviensis Cogn. .Kuntze 1898
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
Revis. Gen. Pl. 3(2): 300 Cogniaux 1898 as Physurus boliviensis
Bot. Mus. Leafl. 18: 190 Garay 1958 as Erythrodes cylindrostachys
Bradea 2: 201 Garay 1977 as Aspidogyne boliviensis
Flora of Ecuador No 9 225[1] Garay 1978 drawing good;
Native Colombian Orchids Vol 5 COS 1994 as Erythrodes boliviensis photo fide;
Native Ecuadorian Orchids Vol 2 Dodson 2001 as Erythrodes clavigera drawing/photo fide;
Orquideologia Vol 24 #1 2005 as Erythrodes boliviensis photo ok;
Orchids of the Department of Valle del Cauca Vol 1 Kolanowski & Szlachetko 2012 drawing;
Materials to the Orchid Flora of Colombia Vol 1: 405 Szlachetko & Kolanowska 2017 as Apidogyne boliviensis drawing fide;
Materials to the Orchid Flora of Colombia Vol 1: 545 pl 115-116-117-118 Szlachetko & Kolanowska 2017 as Apidogyne boliviensis photo fide
Materials to the Orchid Flora of Colombia Vol 1: 545 pl 119 Szlachetko & Kolanowska 2017 as Apidogyne boliviensis photo fide
* Bot. J. Linn. Soc. 197: 337 E.C.Smidt & M.W.Chase 2021
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