Liparis arnoglossophylla (Rchb.f.) Hemsl. 1884 SECTION Otophyllum Schlechter
Photo/Drawing by © Fritz Hamer
Common Name The Membraneous Leaved Liparis
Flower Size .2" [5 mm]
Found in Mexico, Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica and Panama in wet montane forests at the base of trees at elevations around 1700 to 2800 meters as a small sized, cool to cold growing terrestrial or epiphyte with conical-ovoid pseudobulbs enveloped by scarious sheaths and carrying 2, basal, glossy dark green, elliptic, acute to shortly acuminate, gradually narrowing below into tubular petiolate base leaves that blooms in the spring and summer on a terminal, erect, 5 winged, peduncle 1.2 to 4" [3 to 10 cm] long, rachis 1.2 to 4" [3 to 10 cm] long, sublax, racemose, several flowered, subcorymbose inflorescence with lanceoalte, acute, much shorter than the pedicellate ovary and carrying non resupinate, green flowers with agreenish to purplish lip.
Separated from L vexillaria by having a pair of membraneous, spreading leaves vs a single, somewhat firm, erect leaf.
Synonyms Leptorkis arnoglossophylla (Rchb.f.) Kuntze 1891; Liparis vexillifera var. arnoglossophylla (Rchb.f.) R.E.Schult. 1939; *Sturmia arnoglossophylla Rchb.f. 1856
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI
* Bonplandia (Hannover) 4: 217 Rchb.f 1856
Biol. Cent.-Amer., Bot. 3: 212 Hemsl. 1884;
Revis. Gen. Pl. 2: 671 Kuntze 1891 as Leptorkis arnoglossophylla;
Bot. Mus. Leafl. 7: 123 R E Schult. 1939 as L vexillaria car arnoglossophylla;
Las Orquedias De El Salvador Vol 2 Hamer 1974 drawing/photo fide;
Icones Plantarum Tropicarum Plate 821 Hamer 1982 drawing fide;
Selbyana Vol 10 Orchids of Central America Hamer 1988 drawing fide; Icones Orchidacearum 1 Plate 55 Hagsater & Salazar 1990 drawing fide;
Manual de Plantas de Costa Rica Vol 3 Hammel, Grayum, Herrera and Zamora 2003;
Orchid Genera and Species in Guatemala Archila, Szlachchetko, Chiron, Lipinska, Mystkowska and Bertolini 2018;
Materials to the Orchid Flora of Colombia Vol IV:85 Szlatchetko & Kolanowska 2023 drawing fide
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