Microchilus venezuelanus (Garay & Dunst.) Ormerod 2002

TYPE Drawing of Erythrodes venezuelanus by © Dunsterville & Garay and The Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria Website

Common Name The Venezuelan Microchilus

Flower Size .04" [1 mm]

Found in Venezuela in forests at elevations around 400 to 800 meters as a miniature to small sized [in flower], hot to warm growing terrestrial with a decumbent, becoming erect, fairly slender, glabrous stem carrying narrowly lanceolate, dorsally shiny and glacous, ventrally dull shiny velvety, ovate, acute, subpetiolate, tapering, lightly sulcate base leaves that blooms on an erect, terminal, slender, racemose, peduncle terete, glabrous, rachis lightly pubescent, to 6" [to 15 cm] long overall, densely, successively few, many flowered inflorescence.

Synonyms *Erythrodes venezuelana Garay & Dunst. 1976; Physurus venezuelanus Schltr. ex Knuth 1927

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Flora de Venezuela Foldats Volumen XV Part 1 1969 as Erythrodes venezuelana; Venezuelan Orchids Illustrated Vol 6 Dunsterville & Garay 1976 as Erythrodes venezulana drawing fide; Orchids of the Department of Valle del Cauca Vol 1 Kolanowski & Szlachetko 2012

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