Liparis balansae Gagnep. 1932 SUBGENUS Cestichis SECTION Platyglossum
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Another Flower often cited as this species? Photo courtesy of Andy's Orchids, Copyright © 2002 All rights reserved
Common Name Balansa's Liparis [Uruguayan Plant Collector early 1900's] - In China Yuan Chun Yang Er Suan
Flower Size .8" [2 cm]
Found in Yunnan, Guizhou and Sichuan provinces of China, Thailand and Vietnam in primary, open, semi-deciduous, mixed and coniferous, mossy forests on karst limestone at elevations of 1200 to 1500 meters as a small sized, tufted, cool growing epiphyte and lithophytic orchid with densely arranged, nearly narrowly ovoid to ovoid pseudobulbs carrying a single, oblanceolate to narrowly elliptic-oblanceolate, papery, acuminate, contracted below into the petiolate base leaf that blooms in the fall on a compressed, narrowly winged, 4.4 to 10" [11 to 25 cm] long, laxly 3 to 5 flowered inflorescence with narrolwy lanceolate floral bracts.
Synonyms Stichorkis balansae (Gagnep.) Marg., Szlach. & Kulak 2008
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
The Orchids of Thailand Seidenfaden & Smitinand 1959 as L bootanensis fig 571 pg 766 drawing fide; Dansk Bot Arkiv Bind 31 Nr 1 Orchids of Thailand IV Liparis Seidenfaden 1976 drawing fide; Identification of the Orchids [Orchidaceae Juss.] Vietnam Averyanov 1994; Lindleyana Vol 15 No 4 2000; Native Orchids From Gaoligongshan Mountains, China Xiaohua, Xiaodong and Xiaochun 2009 photo ?; A Field Guide to the Orchids of China Singchi, Zhongjian, Yibo, Xiaohua and Zhanhuo 2009 photo ? ; Flora of China Vol 25 Zhengyi, Raven & Deyuan 2009; Flora of China Vol 25 Illustrations Zhengyi, Raven & Deyuan 2010 drawing ok; The Wild Orchids in Yunnan Xu Xiang Ye & Liu 2010 photos
ok; Turczaninowia 16(4):26-46 NEW AND RARE ORCHIDS (ORCHIDACEAE) IN THE FLORA OF CAMBODIA AND LAOS Averyanov 2013 ; Turczaninowia 19 (2): 34–49 Averanov, Vuong and Tam 2016 photo fide
Atlas of Native Orchids of China Vol 2 Jin Xiaohua, Li Jianwu and Ye Deping 2019 photo fide;
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