Microchilus umbraticola (Garay) E.C.Smidt & M.W.Chase 2021
Drawing by © Garay Bradea 2 1977 by
Common Name The Shade Loving Ligeophila
Flower Size .24" [6 mm]
Found in Amazonas department of Colombia, Ecuador, Peru and Bolivia at elevations of 100 to 500 meters as a small sized, hot growing terrestrial with a suberect rhizome giving rise to an erect stem carrying 1 to 3, ovate-lanceolate to lanceolate, acute to subacuminate, rounded in to the petiolate base leaves that blooms in the fall on an erect, terminal, sparsely glandular, peduncle to 4" [10 cm] long, distantly sheathed, sparsely glandular, rachis to 2.6" [6 cm] long, subdensely few to 15 flowered inflorescence with ovate-lanceolate, acute, glabrous, shorter than the ovary floral bracts and carrying glabrous flowers.
Very similar to Microchilus stigmatopterus but M umbraticola can easily be distinguished by having smaller flowers with the tepals reaching 1.64 to 2.2" [4.1 to 5.5 cm] long versus .4 to .6" [1 to 1.5 cm] long, with shorter epichile lobules .28 versus .3 to .4" [7 mm versus 7.5 to 10 mm] and a spur up to .164 versus .48" [4.1 mm long versus 12 mm] long,
Synonyms Aspidogyne umbraticola (Garay) Meneguzzo 2012; Erythrodes umbraticola (Garay) P.Ortiz 1995; Ligeophila umbraticola Garay 1977
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
Bradea 2: 195 Garay 1977 as Ligeophila umbraticola
Orquídeas Colombia: 266 Ortiz 1995 as Erythrodes umbraticola;
Rudolf Schlechter Die Orchideen Band 1C lieferung 40 pg 2492 - 2564 Brieger 2000 drawing fide;
Orquideologia Vol 22 #3 2003 as Erythrodes umbraticola;
Orquidário 26: 90 Meneguzzo 2012 as Aspidogyne umbraticola;
Materials to the Orchid Flora of Colombia Vol 1: 399 Szlachetko & Kolanowska 2017 as Ligeophila umbraticola drawing fide;
* Bot. J. Linn. Soc. 197: 345 E.C.Smidt & M.W.Chase 2021
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