Micropera pallida [Roxb]Lindley 1833 Photo courtesy of Manorot Tangsaveepha Copyright ©, and the Butterfly and Orchids Photo Gallery

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Common Name The Pale Micropera

Flower Size 1/3" [6 mm]

This species grows from sea level to about 1000m in open forest or in other high light situations like road cuts. High humidity is also required. It can often be found growing in darker places, but without high light it will not flower. Found in Assam India, Bangladesh, India, Myanamar, Thailand, Malaysia, Laos, Cambodia, Vietnam, Borneo, Java and Sumatra in swamp forests at elevations around sea-level as a medium to large sized, monopodial, hot to warm growing epiphyte with an stout, robust stem carrying ligulate, spreading, coriaceous, keeled on the underside leaves that are unequally roundly, bilobed apically that has many flowers which open in succession on a short to 3' [90 cm] long, axillary, paniculate inflorescence that is longer than the leaves with elliptic-lanceolate floral bracts and loosely many flowered, occuring in the spring.

Synonyms *Aerides pallidum Roxb. 1832; Aerides pallidum Lindl 1830-40; Camarotis apiculata Rchb. f. 1857; Camarotis pallida [Roxb.]Lindl. 1859; Camarotis poilanei (Guillaumin) Seidenf. & Smitinand 1965; Dendrocolla apiculata (Rchb.f.) Zoll. ex Rchb.f. 1857; Micropera apiculata (Rchb. f.) Garay 1972 ; Micropera poilanei (Guillaumin) Garay 1972; Saccolabium saxicolum Ridl 1893 Sarcanthus apiculatus (Rchb.f.) J.J.Sm. 1905 ; Sarcanthus poilanei Guillaumin 1930; Sarcanthus thorelii Guillaumin 1930; Sarcanthus tricolor Rchb. f. 1855; Sarcochilus cochinchinensis G.Nicholson 1886; Sarcochilus roxburghii Hook.f. 1890

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Orchids of Burma Grant 1895/1995 as Sarcanthus roxburghii; The Orchids of Thailand Seidenfaden & Smitinand 1959 as Camarotis apicualta drawing fide; The Orchids of Thailand Seidenfaden & Smitinand 1959 as Camarotis poilanei drawing; AOS Bulletin Vol 54 No 8 1985 Photo; Orchids of Java Comber 1990; A Checklist of the Orchids of Borneo Wood & Cribb 1994; Orchids of Sumatra Comber 2001; Flora Malesiana Orchids of the Philippines Vol I Agoo, Shuiteman and de Vogel 2003;

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