Micropera loheri (L.O.Williams) Garay 1972 TYPE Photo by © P.B. Pelser & J.F. Barcelona and The Phyto Images Website

Part sun WarmCool LATESummer EARLYFall

Common Name Loher's Micropera [German Orchid Collector late 1800's early 1900's]

Flower Size .56" [1.4 cm]

Found in Rizal Province of the Philippines at medium elevations as a small to medium sized, warm to cool growing epiphyte with an upright, monopodial, cylindrical stem carrying leathery, narrowly elliptic to narrowly oblong leaves that blooms in the spring on an erect, 6.8" [17 cm] long, 15 to 20 flowered inflorescence with rigid, concave bracts and carrying non-resupinate flowers.

Synonyms *Camarotis loheri L.O.Williams 1937

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Orchidiana Philippiana Vol 1 Valmayor 1984; Philippine Native Orchid Species Cootes 2011 photo fide;

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