Micropera philippinensis (Lindl.) Garay 1972 Photo by © Lourens Grobler

Another Flower Photo by Jim Cootes, courtesy of Dr. E.F. de Vogel and Jaap Vermeulen and Their Netherlands National Herbarium Website. and Flora Malesiana Vol III

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Common Name or Meaning The Philippine Micropera

Flower Size .6" [1.5 cm]

Found only in the Philippines at elevations up to 850 meters as a medium sized, hot to warm growing epiphyte with upright stems carrying several, very leathery, 2 ranked, alternate, unequally notched apically leaves that blooms in the fall and early winter on an erect, to 6'8" [200 cm] long, axillary, to 20 loosely flowered, racemose inflorescence carrying non-resupinate flowers

Synonyms *Camarotis philippinensis Lindl. 1858; Gastrochilus bifidus (Lindl.) Kuntze 1891; *Saccolabium bifidum Lindl. 1838; Sarcanthus bifidus (Lindl.) Ames 1915

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Encyclopedia of Cultivated Orchids Hawkes 1965 as Camarotis philippinensis photo ok; The Complete Writings on Philippine Orchids Vol 2 Quisumbing 1981 as Camarotis philippinensis photo good;Orchidiana Philipiniana Vol 1 Valmayor 1984 drawing fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 54 No 8 1985 photo fide; Rudolf Schlechter Die Orchideen Band 1B lieferung 22 1329 - 1392 Brieger 1989; Orchids of the Philippines Cootes 2001 photo fide; Flora Malesiana Orchids of the Philippines Vol I Agoo, Shuiteman and de Vogel 2003; Philippine Nativer Orchid Species cootes 2011 photo Genera Orchidacearum Vol 6 Epidendrodeae Pt 3 Pridgeon, Cribb, Chase and Rasmussen 2014

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