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Micropera Lindl.

Genus

Angiosperms > Asparagales > Orchidaceae

Characteristics

Large epiphytes or lithophytes with long, fibrous stems and coarse, thick roots; plants sometimes climbing. Leaves widely spaced, leathery. Inflorescence racemose or paniculate, often short, arising from stem opposite leaf. Flowers often non-resupinate, facing outwards or to apex of raceme, whitish. Sepals and petals narrow, similar in shape and size. Dorsal sepal free. Lateral sepals attached to base of labellum. Petals often reflexed. Labellum fixed to base of column. Labellum lamina obscurely lobed, shoe-shaped, with deep basal spur. Column short, without basal foot. Pollinia 4, in 2 appressed pairs, hard, waxy, orange, attached via long, very narrow stipe to small viscidium.
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Herbs, clambering, monopodial. Stems long, with many long roots and leaves. Leaves many, flat, fleshy, oblong to linear, with sheathing base, jointed. Inflorescence often borne opposite leaves, rather long, racemose, many flowered. Flowers small or medium-sized, not resupinate. Sepals and petals free, similar; lip conspicuously spurred or saccate, 3-lobed; lateral lobes broad, erect; mid-lobe smaller, fleshy; spur often ornamented at its entrance, commonly with a longitudinal septum inside. Column short, lacking a foot; rostellum projection prominent, beaked; pollinia 4, in 2 subequal pairs on a common long stipe; viscidium very small.
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Found on trees and rocks in humid lowland rainforest.
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Hardiness (USDA) 8-12

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Images

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Distribution

Micropera world distribution map, present in Australia, Bangladesh, China, Indonesia, Lao People's Democratic Republic, Myanmar, Nepal, Philippines, Solomon Islands, Thailand, and Viet Nam

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:29982-1
WFO ID wfo-4000024165
COL ID 8VZDF
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INPN ID 672683
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Synonyms

Micropera

Lower taxons

Micropera callosa Micropera fasciculata Micropera mannii Micropera obtusa Micropera pallida Micropera philippinensis Micropera poilanei Micropera proboscidea Micropera sterrophylla Micropera uncinata Micropera utriculosa Micropera sheryliae p.o'byrne Micropera cochinchinensis Micropera loheri Micropera secunda Micropera thailandica Micropera edanoi Micropera tibetica Micropera costulata Micropera draco Micropera fuscolutea Micropera rostratum
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