Galapagos Species Database
The Galapagos Species Database shares the information about the species from our Natural History Collections.
Microchilus weberianus
Orquidea, Orchid
Terrestrial, 30 cm tall, with fleshy rhizomes and rooted nodes. The petiole is slender and the flowers are white and small (Wiggins and Porter, 1971).
Found in shaded, moist soil at about 300 m on Isabela (Wiggins and Porter, 1971).
Domain
Eukaryota
Kingdom
Plantae
Phylum
Magnoliophyta
Class
Liliopsida (= Monocotyledoneae)
Order
Asparagales
Family
Orchidaceae
Genus
Microchilus
Species
weberianus
Taxon category: Accepted
Syn.: Erythrodes weberiana Garay fide Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, Missouri Botanical Garden (2010). Order changed from Orchidales to Asparagales (updated by: J.Villalba 2022).
Origin: Native
Distribution: The native range of this species is mainland Ecuador, Galápagos (POWO, 2023).
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- Garay, L.A. (1978) 225(1). Orchidaceae (Cypripedioideae, Orchidoideae, Neottioideae). Flora del Ecuador 9: 1–305.
- Itow, S. (1997) List of Plant Specimens collected in the Galápagos Islands, Ecuador. Bulletin of the Faculty of Liberal Arts, Nagasaki University, Natural Science, 38 (1): 53-144.
- Jørgensen, P.M. León-Yánez, S. (eds.) (1999) Catalogue of the Vascular Plants of Ecuador. Monographs in Systematic Botany from the Missouri Botanical Garden 75. Missouri Botanical Garden Press, St. Louis, 1181 pp.
- Lawesson, J.E. Adsersen, H. & Bentley, P. (1987) An updated and annotated check list of the vascular plants of the Galapagos islands. Rept. Bot. Inst., Univ. Aarhus 16: 1-74.
- Porter, D.M. (1983) Vascular Plants of the Galapagos: Origins and Dispersal. In: Bowman, R.I., Berson, M. & Leviton, A.E. (eds.): Patterns of evolution in Galápagos organisms. Pacific Division, AAAS, San Francisco, California, p. 33-96.
- Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (2022) Plants of the world online POWO (2022): Plants of the world online. Published on the Internet; Https://powo.science.kew.org/
- Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew Missouri Botanical Garden (eds.) (2013) The Plant List, Version 1.1. Published on the Internet; http://www.theplantlist.org/ (accessed 1st January).
- Valencia, R. Pitman, N., León-Yánez, S. & Jørgensen, P.M. (2000) Libro Rojo de las Plantas Endémicas del Ecuador. Herbario QCA, Pontificia Universidad Católica del Ecuador. Ecuador 2000 i–iv, 1–489.
- Van der Werff, H.H. (s.a.) Pers. obs. and colls. Personal observations and collections.
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"Galapagos Species Database, Microchilus weberianus", dataZone. Charles Darwin Foundation, https://datazone.darwinfoundation.org/en/checklist/?species=17880. Accessed 1 November 2026.