Microchilus buchtienii (Schltr.) Ormerod 2002

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Common Name Buchtien's Microchilus [German Orchid Collector in Central and South America 1900's]

Flower Size .12" [3 mm]

Found in La Paz department of Bolivia at elevations around 1100 meters as a large sized, cool growing terrestrial with an erect, slightly flexuous, to substrict, leafy in the lower half stem carrying 7 to 8, erect-patent, obliquely elliptic, acuminate, petiolate base leaves that blooms in the later spring on an erect, terminal, strict, narrow, 8" [20 cm] long, densely many flowered inflorescence with erect, linear, acute floral bracts and carrying greenish flowers.

"I have not yet come across any other species in Bolivia that reaches the height of M buchtienii.The species has no other particularily striking characteristics but differs from others with similar flowering patterns by its lip shape." Schlechter 1929

Synonyms Erythrodes buchtienii (Schltr.) Schltr. ex R.Vásquez & al. 2013; *Physurus buchtienii Schltr. 1929

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;

Repert. Spec. Nov. Regni Veg. 27: 34 Schlechter 1929 as Physurus buchtienii

* Lindleyana 17: 216 Ormerod 2002

Monogr. Syst. Bot. Missouri Bot. Gard. 127: 928 Schltr. ex R.Vásquez & al. 2013

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