Microchilus madrinanii Ormerod 2005

TYPE Drawing by Paul Ormerod and Harvard Pap. Bot. 9: 410 fig 23Ormerod 2005

EARLY

Common Name Madrinan's Microchilus [Colombian Collector of the type current]

Flower Size .12" [3 mm]

Found in Magdalena department of Colombia in disturbed primary forests, remnant forests and near forest edges at elevations around 700 to 1400 meters as a miniature to small sized, warm to cool growing terrestrial with a creeping rhizome giving rise to an erect, terete stem carrying up to 5 to 6, green with darker green irregular markings, obliquely ovate-elliptic, subacuminate, petiolate base leaves that blooms in the early summer on an erect, terminal, pubescent, 15.54 to 16" [36.3 to 40 cm] long, peduncle 8.2 to 8.68" [20.5 to 21.7 cm] long, provided with 5 to 8 lax sheathing bracts, rachis 6.32 to 7.4" [15.8 to 18.5 cm] long, densely many flowered inflorescence with lanceolate, acute, longer than than the the ovary floral bracts and carrying externally sparsely pubescent flowers.

"This species is easily recognized by the irregular dark green markings on the leaves. In the shape of the lip it bears some resemblance to the Venezuelan species Microchilus campanulatus and M. curviflorus but otherwise it does not seem closely related to these taxa." Ormerod 2005

Synonyms

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;

* Harvard Pap. Bot. 9: 411 Ormerod 2005

Harvard Pap. Bot. 9: 410 fig 23 Ormerod 2005 drawing fide;

Materials to the Orchid Flora of Colombia Vol 1: 338 Szlachetko & Kolanowska 2017 drawing fide

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