Microchilus calophyllus (Rchb.f.) Ormerod 2002 Photo by © Teck H Hia

Common Name The Beautiful Leafed Microchilus

Flower Size

Found in Costa Rica in forests among boulders and on steep slopes at elevations of 150 to 900 meters as a small to medium sized, hot to warm growing terrestrial with a leafy stem carrying ovate to elliptic-ovate to lanceolate ovate, shortly acuminate, speckled with pale spots, petiolate base leaves that blooms in the fall and winter on an erect, 10 to 12" [20 to 30 cm] long, several to many flowered inflorescence with lanceolate to elliptic-lanceolate, acuminate floral bracts.

Synonyms Erythrodes calophylla (Rchb.f.) Ames 1922; Physurus calophyllus Rchb.f. 1866

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Studies in the family Orchidaceae Vol VII Ames 1922 as Erythrodes calophylla; Manual De Plants De Costa Rica Vol III Hammel, Grayum, Herrera and Zamora 2003 as Erythrodes callophylla; AOS Bulletin Vol 72 No 4 2003 photo fide; Vanishing Beauty, Native Costa Rican Orchids Vol 2 Lacaena to Pteroglossa Pupulin 2020 photo fide

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