Liparis apiculata Schltr. 1911 SUBGENUS Cestichis SECTION Distichae

Type Drawing by © Schlechter and The Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria Website

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Common Name The Apiculate Liparis [refers to the basal lobe apice of the lip]

Flower Size

Found in New Guinea on tree in forests at elevations around 1000 meters as a small to medium sized, warm to cool growing epiphyte with a short decumbent rhizome giving rise to more or less close set to shortly distant, thin, stem shaped, basally ovate, subancipitous pseudobulbs carrying a single, erect to suberect, linear, acute to subacuminate, 8 to 12" [20 to 30 cm] long, narrowing below into the base leaves that blooms in the later winter on an erect, thin, ancipitous, slightly compressed glabrous, somewhat longer than the leaves in length, peduncle 6 to 10" [15 to 15 cm] long, distichous, to 2.4" [6 cm] long, densely several to many flowered inflorescence.

Schlechter states that the flowers are bright salmon colored.

Synonyms Disticholiparis apiculata (Schltr.) Marg. & Szlach. 2004; Stichorkis apiculata (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 apiculata

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