Liparis brunnescens Schltr. 1911 SUBGENUS Cestichis SECTION Distichae
Photo by © Jon Cara and The Orchids of New Guinea Website
TYPE Drawing by © Schlechter and The Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria Website
EARLY 
Common Name The Brownish Liparis
Flower Size
Found in New Guinea on trees in montane forests at elevations around 1300 meters as a small sized, cool growing epiphyte with a short rhizome giving rise to close set, stem shaped, basally thicker, apically slightly compressed pseudobulbs carrying a single, erect to suberect, linear, 4.8 to 6" [12 to 15 cm] long, acute to apiculate, narrowing below into the base leaves that blooms in the early summer on an erect, thin, ancipitous, slightly compressed glabrous, somewhat shorter than the leaves in length, rachis to 1" [2.5 cm] long, distichous, densely 20 to 25 flowered inflorescence with erect-patent, ovate, acute, ancipitous-conduplicate, shorter than the ovary floral bracts.
Schlechter states that the flowers are brownish salmon in color.
Synonyms Disticholiparis brunnescens (Schltr.) Marg. & Szlach. 2004; Stichorkis brunnescens (Schltr.) Ormerod & Naive 2019;
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; *Orchidaceae of German New Guinea Schlechter 1911 Drawing fide; Lankesteriana 19(3) 253 - 61 Naive & Ormerod 2019 as Stichorkis brunnescens
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