Microchilus croatii Ormerod 2019

TYPE Drawing by © Paul Ormerod and Harvard Pap. Bot. 24: 277 Ormerod 2019

EARLIER

Common Name Croat's Microchilus

Flower Size .12" [3 mm]

Found in Zamora-Chinchipe province of Ecuador at elevations of 1200 to 1300 meters as a medium to just large sized, cool growing terrestrial with a terete, lower part decumbent becoming erect stem carrying 4 to 5, obliquely elliptic, subacuminate, petiolate base leaves that blooms in the early winter on a terminal, erect, pubescent, to 18.92" [47.3 cm] long, peduncle 13.72" [34.3 cm] long, provided with 7, lax sheathing bracts, rachis 5.2" [13 cm] long, subsecund, subdensely many flowered inflorescence with ovate-lanceolate, subacuminate, twice as long as the ovary floral bracts and carrying externally, laxly pubescent, white flowers.

"This taxon appears similar to its Ecuadorian congener Microchilus viridissimus, having flowers about the same size; however, it differs in having a lunate-anchoriform vs. transversely oblong) labellum epichile with half as wide .0016 versus .0036" (0.4 vs. 0.9 mm) lobules, and a much stouter column." Ormerod 2019

Synonyms

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;

* Harvard Pap. Bot. 24: 276 Ormerod 2019

Harvard Pap. Bot. 24: 277 fig 1 Ormerod 2019 drawing fide;

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