Crossoglossa liparidoides (Finet) Dodson 1993
Photo by © Andrea Niessen
Drawing by © Dodson
Drawing by © Bennett & Christenson
Common Name The Liparis Like Crossoglossa
Flower Size 1" [2.5 cm]
Found in Ecuador and Peru in upper montane cloud forests at elevations around of 2200 meters as a miniature sized, cold growing terrestrial with villous roots and a caulescent, repent stem carrying distichous, close set, imbricating, leaf sheaths and narrowly elliptic, undulate margin, light green, acute, narrowing below into the subpetiolate base leaves that blooms in the summer on an apical, terminal, peduncle to 4" [10 cm] long, to 12" [30 cm] long overall, rachis apex nodding, elongating growing tip, strongly acute angled, densely many flowered inflorescence with subequal to the twisted, acutely ribbed ovary floral bracts.
Distinguished by the ovate-cordiform, lip less than .16" [4mm] long, with the margins retrorsely ciliate and with a pair of united, flap-like callis in front of the thickened ring surrounding the column
CAUTION The 2 drawings above are different in the margins of the leaves and in the lip apex, I feel that Dodson is closer.
Synonyms Malaxis liparidioides (Finet) C.Schweinf. 1941; *Microstylis liparidoides Finet 1908
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
* Bull. Soc. Bot. France 55: 333 Finet 1908
Bot. Mus. Leafl. 9: 128 Schweinfurth 1941 as Malaxis liparioides
Orchids of Peru Vol 2 Schweinfurth 1959 as Malaxis liparioides;
Icones Plantarum Tropicarum Plate 522 Dodson 1989 as Malaxis liparioides drawing fide;
Icones Orchidacearum Peruviarum Plate 81 Bennett & Christenson 1993 as Malaxis liparioides drawing fide to the second drawing;
Native Colombian Orchids Vol 5 COS 1994 drawing fide to the first drawing;
Flora of Ecuador 225 [2] Orchidaceae AA - Cyrtidiorchis Dodson & Luer 2005;
Orchids, A Colombian Treasure Vol 1 Ortiz & Uribe 2014 drawing/photo fide;
Materials to the Orchid Flora of Colombia Vol IV:76 Szlatchetko & Kolanowska 2023 drawing fide
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