Liparis bicuspidata J.J.Sm. 1903 SUBGENUS Cestichis SECTION?
Photos by © J.B.Comber and The Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria Website
Photo by © Sarah Thomas
Common Name The Two Toothed Liparis
Flower Size .2" [5 mm]
Found in Borneo and the Philippines at elevations of sea level to 500 meters as a miniature to small sized, hot growing epiphyte with close set, pear-shaped to cylindrical, appressed above pseudobulbs carrying 2, apical, leathery, jointed, oblong-lanceolate, acute, narrowing on both sides leaves that blooms in the later spring on an erect, loosely flowered inflorescence.
Synonyms Liparis wenzelii Ames 1915; Stichorkis bicuspidata (J.J.Sm.) Marg., Szlach. & Kulak 2008
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Orchidiana Philippinana Vol 1 Valmayor 1984 as L wenzelii; AOS Bulletin VOl 62 # 11 1993 photo fide; A Checklist of the Orchids of Borneo Wood & Cribb 1994 drawing fide; Orchids of Sarawak Beaman, Wood & Beaman etal 2001; Orchids of the Philippines Cootes 2001 as L wenzelii photo fide; Malesian Orchid Journal Vol 2 2008
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