Microchilus bugabae (Ormerod) E.C.Smidt & M.W.Chase 2021
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Collection sheet by © Hatschback
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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, petioalae 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.
Synonyms
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
* Harvard Pap. Bot. 13: 59 Ormerod 2008 drawing fide;
Materials to the Orchid Flora of Colombia Vol 1: 440 Szlachetko & Kolanowska 2017 as Kreodanthus bugabae; drawing fide;
* Bot. J. Linn. Soc. 197: 339 E.C.Smidt & M.W.Chase 2021
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