- Family:
- Orchidaceae Juss.
Microsaccus Blume

[A-EM]
- General Description
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Epiphytic herbs. Stem up to 20 cm long, often curved, simple or branching, leafy, rooting at base. Leaves laterally flattened, distichously arranged, usually imbricate at base. Inflorescences arising from leaf axils, one- or two-flowered, often borne opposite one another; floral bracts linear and ovate. Flowers white, fleshy. Sepals and petals usually not widely spreading. Sepals usually free, laterals sometimes joined at base to and decurrent along spur. Petals free. Labellum firmly adnate to base of column, entire, emarginate or slightly bilobed, ecallose, pitcher-shaped and quadrangular in outline, oblong, spurred; spur globose or narrow and shallowly conical, sometimes transversely compressed, ecallose. Column foot absent; pollinia four, equal, stipe linear-clavate, 1.5–3.0 times the diameter of the pollinia, viscidium narrowly elliptic.
- Distribution
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Microsaccus includes 13 species collectively distributed from Burma to Indonesia and the Philippines.
- Ecology
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Species are epiphytes in forests, open deciduous and evergreen swamp forests from 0 to 2000 m.
Native to:
Borneo, Cambodia, Jawa, Malaya, Myanmar, Philippines, Sumatera, Thailand, Vietnam
- Microsaccus affinis J.J.Sm.
- Microsaccus albovirescens J.J.Sm.
- Microsaccus ampullaceus J.J.Sm.
- Microsaccus borneensis J.J.Sm.
- Microsaccus canaliculatus J.J.Sm.
- Microsaccus dempoensis J.J.Sm.
- Microsaccus griffithii (C.S.P.Parish & Rchb.f.) Seidenf.
- Microsaccus javensis Blume
- Microsaccus mihoae P.O'Byrne & Gokusing
- Microsaccus ramosus J.J.Sm.
- Microsaccus sumatranus J.J.Sm.
- Microsaccus truncatus Carr
- Microsaccus wenzelii Ames
Microsaccus Blume appears in other Kew resources:
First published in Bijdr. Fl. Ned. Ind.: 367 (1825)
Accepted by
- Govaerts, R. (2003). World Checklist of Monocotyledons Database in ACCESS: 1-71827. The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
- Pridgeon, A.M., Cribb, P.J., Chase, M.C. & Rasmussen, F.N. (2014). Genera Orchidacearum 6: 1-544. Oxford University Press, New York, Oxford.
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Aeridinae: e-monocot.org
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© Copyright 2017 International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Selected Plant Families. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0