Micropera rostrata (Roxb.) N.P.Balakr.

Climbing, epiphytic herbs. Stem simple or branching, up to 1 m long,erect stem carrying distichous, internodes to about 2 cm long, bearing many support roots at intervals. Oblong-linear, emarginate leaves that blooms in the fall and early winter on an axillary to lateral, arching to 8" [to 20 cm] long ; Inflorescence lateral, leaf-opposed, bending through a right angle so the rachis points either straight up or straight down, racemose, to c. 15 cm long, few- to many-flowered. Flowers usually non-resupinate, fleshy, usually purple, 2 cm. Sepals oblong or obovate, obtuse, often reflexed, lateral sepals connate for a short distance at base. Petals linearobovate or oblong, obtuse, often reflexed. Labellum porrect, saccate, spurred, apex trilobed, midlobe much smaller than sac or spur; spur saccate, with a back wall callus.

India: Central India, Assam, Manipur, Meghalaya, Nagaland; Myanmar, Thailand