Micropera utriculosa (Ames) Garay 1972 Photo courtesy of Dr. E.F. de Vogel, André Schuiteman and Jaap Vermeulen and Their Netherlands National Herbarium Website

Common Name or Meaning The Paradoxical Mediocalcar

Flower Size .4" [1 cm]

Found in the Moluccas, Sulawesi, New Guinea, Solomon Islands, the Philippines, Santa Cruz Islands, Fiji, Samoa, the Caroline Islands and Vanuatu at elevationsup to 1000 meters as a small sized, hot growing epiphyte with an erect stem carrying leathery, gracefully arising, oblong-linear, fleshy leaves that blooms on an opposite the leaves, erect, 6 to 12, simultaneously flowered, racemose inflorescemce.

Synonyms *Camarotis utriculosa Ames 1915; Sarcanthus utriculosus (Ames) L.O.Williams 1937

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Orchidiana Philipiniana Vol 1 Valmayor 1984; Orchids of the Philippines Cootes 2001; Flora Malesiana Orchids of the Philippines Vol I Agoo, Shuiteman and de Vogel 2003;