Liparis formosana Rchb. f. 1880 Photo by © Cincinatti Judging Center Website

Drawing Drawing by © F. Maekawa and The Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria Website

EARLY

Common Name The Formosa Liparis - In China Di Di Yang Er Suan

Flower Size 3/4" 1.8 cm]

Found in Japan, Ryukyu Islands, Taiwan and Hong Kong at elevations of 300 to 500 meters in broad-leaved forests as a miniature sized, cool to cold growing terrestrial with clustered, cylindric pseudobulbs carrying 2 to 4, obliquely elliptic to ovate, acute apically leaves that blooms in the early spring on a .6" to 2.6" [1.5 to 6.5 cm] long, laxly 1 to 5 flowered inflorescence with ovate-lanceolate, acute apically floral bracts.

Synonyms Diteilis formosana (Rchb.f.) M.A.Clem. & D.L.Jones 2005; Liparis bituberculata var. formosana (Rchb.f.) Ridl. 1886; Liparis formosana f. aureovariegata Nakai 1969; Liparis nervosa var. formosana (Rchb.f.) M.Hiroe 1971

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Flora of China Vol 25 Zhengyi, Raven & Deyuan 2009;

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