Microchilus boyacanus Ormerod 2013

TYPE Drawing by © Ormerod and Harvard Pap. Bot. 12(2): 153, Fig 8 Ormerod 2009

LATE EARLY

Common Name The Boyaca Microchilus

Flower Size .12" [3 mm]

Found in Boyaca department of Colombia in wet riverside forests at elevations around 1770 meters as a small sized, cool growing terrestrial with a terete stem carrying 6, obliquely ovate-elliptic, subacuminate, petiolate base leaves that blooms in the late winter and early spring on a terminal, erect, pubescent, 21.32" [53.3 cm] long overall, peduncle 12.8" [32.1 cm] long, provided with 5?, scattered sheathing bracts, rachis 8.5" [21.2 cm] long, laxly many flowered inflorescence with ovate-lanceolate, acute, longer than the ovary floral bracts and carrying externally pubescent flowers of unknown colors.

"This species is probably related to the Venezuelan and Guyanese M. campanulatus but differs from it in having a narrower .052 versus .08" [1.4 vs. 2 mm] dorsal sepal, narrower .024 to .028" versus .04 to .048" [.6 to .7 vs. 1 to 1.2 mm] epichile lobules and a shorter .092 to .11 versus .112 to .14" [2.3 to 2.6 vs. 2.8 to 3.5 mm] column" Ormerod 2013

Synonyms

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;

* Harvard Pap. Bot. 12(2): 155 Ormerod 2009

Harvard Pap. Bot. 12(2): 153, Fig 8 Ormerod 2009 drawing fide;

Materials to the Orchid Flora of Colombia Vol 1: 361 Szlachetko & Kolanowska 2017 drawing fide

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