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Micropera

Micropera
Photo: Raabbustamante, CC BY-SA 3.0
Family
Orchidaceae (Orchid family)
Grows as
Epiphyte, Orchid

About

Micropera, commonly known as dismal orchids or 小囊兰属 (xiao nang lan shu) is a genus of about twenty species of flowering plants from the orchid family, Orchidaceae. Plants in this genus are large epiphytes with thick roots, long, fibrous stems, linear leaves and whitish or yellow, non-resupinate flowers. The sepals and petals are similar to each other and the labellum is shoe-shaped or sac-like and has three lobes. It is found from Tibet to tropical Asia and the western Pacific Ocean.

Where it grows

Species of Micropera are found from the Himalayas to China, Malaysia, Indonesia, the Philippines, New Guinea, the Solomon Islands and Australia.

Other Micropera plants

Micropera fasciculata · Micropera rostrata · Micropera utriculosa

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Micropera by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts are shared under the same licence.

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