Liparis brachyglottis Rchb.f 1885 SUBGENUS Sturmia SECTION Liparis

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

Common Name The Short Lip Liparis

Flower Size .4" [1 cm]

Found in Sri Lanka in submontane to tropical wet evergreen forests at elevations around 1200 to 1850 meters as a mini-miniature sized, cool growing terrestrial terrestrial with a somewhat basally thickened, stem-like pseudobulb carrying 2, ovate, 5 veined, crisp margin, acute to acuminate, abruptly narrowing into the sessile or short petiolate base leaves that blooms on an erect, slender, shortly pedunculate, 2 to 3" [5 to 7.5 cm] long, laxly, several flowered inflorescence with persistent, not-refl;exed, spreading, ovate, acutee floral bracts and carrying small, purple flowers.

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References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Dansk Bot Arkiv Bind 31 Nr 1 Orchids of Thailand IV Liparis Seidenfaden 1976 drawing fide; A Revised Handbook to the Flora of Ceylon Dassanayake & Fosberg 1981 drawing fide;

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