Microchilus bruxelii (Pabst) E.C.Smidt & M.W.Chase 2021

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Collection Sheet

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Common Name Bruxel's Microchilus

Flower Size .12" [3 mm]

Found in southern Brazil and northeastern Argentina at elevations around 780 meters as a small sized, cool growing terrestrial that blooms in the winter on an erect, terminal, several flowered inflorescence

Synonyms Aspidogyne bruxelii (Pabst) Garay 1977; *Erythrodes bruxelii Pabst 1953; Erythrodes bruxelii var. acutiloba Pabst 1972

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;

Arch. Jard. Bot. Rio de Janeiro 12: 133 Pabst 1953 as Erythrodes bruxelii

Bradea 1: 177 Pabst 1972 as Erythrodes bruxelii var. acutiloba

Orchidaceae Brasilensis Vol 1: 131 Pabst & Dungs 1975 as Erythrodes bruxelii

Orchidaceae Brasilensis Vol 1: 288 fig 526 Pabst & Dungs 1975 as Erythrodes bruxelii drawing fide

Bradea 2: 203 Garay 1977 as Aspidogyne bruxelii

* Bot. J. Linn. Soc. 197: 337 E.C.Smidt & M.W.Chase 2021

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