Micropera obtusa (Lindl.) T. Tang & F.T. Wang 1951

Plant and Flower Photos by Manorot Tangsaveepha Copyright ©, and the Butterfly and Orchids Photo Gallery

Part Shade Hot Fall

Common Name The Obtuse Micropera

Flower Size .65" [1.8 cm]

Found in NE India, Bhutan, Sikkim, Myanamar and Thailand in tropical valleys annd subtropical terai forests at elevations around 400 meters as a small sized, hot growing epiphyte with an erect stem enveloped completely by striate, tubular-adpressed leaf bearing sheaths and carrying several, linear-oblong, slightly and obliquely bifid apically, sessile, jointed leaves and blooms in the late spring and early summer on a lateral, laxly successively 10 to 15 flowered, racemose, to 6" [to 15 cm] long inflorescence

Synonyms *Camarotis obtusa Lindl.1844; Sarcochilus obtusus (Lindl.) Benth. ex Hook.f. 1890

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; The Orchids of Bhutan Pearce & Cribb 2001; A Field Guide to the Wild Orchids of Thailand Vaddhanaphuti 2001 ;