Micropera obtusa (Lindl.) Tang & Wang

in Acta. Phytotax. Sin. 1(1): 94 (1951).

Synonymes

Aerides obtusa (Blume) Lindl. in Gen. Sp. Orchid. Pl.: 239 (1833).

Camarotis obliquirostris Parish in King & Pantling, Ann. Bot. Gard. Calc. 8. 238 (1898).

Camarotis obtusa Lindl. in Bot. Reg. 7 (1844). (basionyme)

Sarcochilus obtusus (Lindl.) Bentham in Hooker Fil., Fl. Brit. Ind. 6: 36 (1890).

Répartition

Bangladesh, Bhoutan, Birmanie, Inde, Sikkim, Thaïlande.

Inde : Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Nagaland, Tripura, West Bengal.

Floraison : _____JJA____. Altitude de 410 à 500 m.

Description sommaire

Plante épiphyte. Taille de 15 à 25 cm. Fleurs de 5 à 15, blanches, roses. Sépale dorsal oblong, de 6-8 × 1-2 mm. Sépales latéraux oblongs, à apex obtus, de 5-7 × 1-2 mm. Pétales oblongs, de 7-8 × 2-3 mm.

Bibliographie

Seidenfaden. Orchid genera in Thailand XIV. Opera Botanica. 1988. Page 126. Dessin.

Udai C. Pradhan. Indian orchids : Guide II. Udai C. Pradhan. 1979. Page 497. Dessin.

King & Pantling. The orchids of the Sikkim - Himalaya. Royal Botanic Garden, Calcutta. 1898. Page 238. Dessin.

Nantiya Vaddhanaphuti. Wild orchids of Thailand. Silkworm Books. 2001. Page 143. Photo.

S.Z. Lucksom. The orchids of Sikkim and North East Himalaya. S.Z. Lucksom. 2007. Page 834. Photo, dessin.

Nyan Tun Taunggyi. Wild orchids of Myanmar. Daw Tin Tin Aye (Green Leaf Publishing House). 2014. Page 329. Photo.

André Schuiteman, B. Ramamurthy Kailash & Uttam Babu Shrestha. A checklist of the Orchidaceae of India. Missouri Botanical Garden Press. 2022. Page 138.

Khyanjeet Gogoi. Orchids of Assam, a pictorial guide. Publication Division, Dibrugarh University. 2019. Page 368. Photo.