Liparis acaulis Schltr. 1905 SUBGENUS Cestichis SECTION Coriifoliae
Drawing by © Linda Gurr
TYPE Drawing by © Schlechter and The Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria Website
EARLY 
Common Name The Short Stemmed Liparis
Flower Size.8" [2 cm]
Found in Borneo, New Guinea and the Philippines on trees in lower montane forests at elevations around 800 to 1500 meters as a small sized, warm to cool growing epiphyte with n ovoid pseudobulb neveloped by leaf sheaths carrying 2, apical, erect, green mottled whitelanceolate, acute leaves that blooms in the fall and later winter on an erect, peduncle 6" [15 cm] long, provided with a few, well spaced, bracts, rachis to 8" [20 cm] long, laxly many flowered inflorescence.
Schlechter states that the flowers are green.
Synonyms Cestichis acaulis (Schltr.) M.A.Clem. & D.L.Jones 2005; Liparis grandis Ames & C.Schweinf. 1920; Liparis jarensis Ames 1920; Stichorkis acaulis (Schltr.) Marg., Szlach. & Kulak 2008
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Orchidaceae of German New Guinea Schlechter 1911/85 drawing fide; Orchidaceae 6: 87 Ames & Schweinfurth 1920 as L grandis; The Plants of Mount Kinabalu Vol 2 Orchids Beaman, Wood, Beaman & Beaman 1993 as L grandis; A Checklist of the Orchids of Borneo Wood & Cribb 1994 as L grandia; Malesian Orchid J. 2: 119 J J Wood & Ormerod 2008; The Orchids of Mount Kinabalu Vol 2 Wood, Beaman, Lamb, Chu Lun and Beaman 2011 drawing fide
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