Liparis brachystalix Rchb.f. 1876 SECTION Decumbentes Garay & G A Romero
Entire Plant in situ Ventanas Antioquia Colombia 3/2020
Photos by © Jay Pfahl
Drawing by Dodson © Collection Sheet
Common Name The Short Column Liparis
Flower Size 1/5" [5 mm]
Found in Antioquia, Cesar, Cundinamarca, Cauca and Putumayo departments of Colombia, Tachira state of Venezuela and Azuay, Imbabura, Napo and Pichincha provinces of Ecuador at elevations around 2300 to 3330 meters as a medium sized, cold growing terrestrial with a terete, elongate, basally decumbent becoming ascending, branching, glabrous stem carrying many all along the stem, erect-patent, distant, ovate, shortly and obtusely acuminate, finely crenulate margins, abruptly narrowing below into the canaliculate, round, conduplicate petiolate, base leaves that blooms in the spring, summer and fall on a terminal to rarely subterminal, 3.2 to 5.6" [8 to 14 cm] long, racemose, many flowered inflorescence with erect-patent, lanceolate to ovate-lanceolate, acuminate floral bracts.
Synonyms Leptorkis brachystalix (Rchb.f.) Kuntze 1891; Liparis commelinoides Schltr.1915; Liparis fendleri Schltr. 1919; Liparis pothoides F.Lehm. & Kraenzl. 1899
ReferencesW3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
Revis. Gen. Pl. 2: 671 Kuntze 1891 as Leptorkis brachystalix;
Bot. Jahrb. Syst. 26: 478 F Lehm. & Kraenzl. 1899 as L pothoides;
Repert. Spec. Nov. Regni Veg. 14: 119 Schlechter 1915 as L commelinoides;
Repert. Spec. Nov. Regni Veg. Beih. 6: 32 Die Orchideen der Sudamerikanischen Kordillerenstaaten I Venezuela Schlechter 1919 as L fendleri;
Flora de Venzuela Volumen 11 Parte 1 Foldats 1969;
Icones Planetarum Tropicarum Plate 930 Dodson 1980 drawing fide;
Icones Planetarum Tropicarum Plate 510 Dodson 1989 as L crispifolia drawing fide;
Orchids, A Colombian Treasure Vol 3 Ortiz & Uribe 2019 drawing fide;
Materials to the Orchid Flora of Colombia Vol IV:89 Szlatchetko & Kolanowska 2023 drawing fide
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