Liparis neuroglossa Rchb.f. 1881 SECTION Retusae Ormerod
Photos by © Rebecca Repasky
Common Name The Nerved Lip Liparis
Flower Size .6" [1.5cm]
Found in Venezuela, Peru and Bolivia in wet cloud forests at elevations around 2500 to 2700 meters as a mini-miniature to miniature sized, cold growing terrestrial with a long rhizome giving rise to a recumbent to ascending stem with inconspicous, well spaced or without pseudobulbs and carrying membraneous, narrowly ovate, to suborbicular, acute to shortly acuminate, deeply cordate, petiolate base leaves that blooms in the summer on a terminal, racemose, peduncle, angled,rachis .4 to 2" [1 to 5 cm] long, subdense to dense, several to many flowered inflorescence with narrrowly lanceolate to triangular lanceolate, acuminate, shorter than the ovary floral bracts .
Synonyms Leptorchis neuroglossa (Rchb.f.) Kuntze 1891;
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
Flora de Venezuela Volumen XV Primera Parte Foldats 1969 drawing not = L retusa;
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