Liparis cardiophylla Ames 1908
Drawing by © Mark Nir/Proctor
Drawing by © Ames and The Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria Website
Common Name The Heart Shaped Leaf Liparis
Flower Size
Found in the Dominican Republic, Haiti and Jamaica as a mini-miniature to just miniature sized, cool growing terrestrial with a creeping rhizome giving rise at intervals, ovoid-conical pseudobulbs enveloped by leaf bearing sheaths and carrying a single, thin, cordate, acute to abruptly apiculate, , narrowing blowinto the petiolate base leaf that blooms on an angled, peduncle 4" [10 cm] long, rachis 1.6" [4 cm] long, distally crowded several flowered inflorescence with linear-lanceolate, longer than the ovary floral bracts and carrying greenish flowers.
Sometimes cited as a synonym of L neuroglossa from Bolivia which has a similar plant but larger flowers with ovate-lanceolate tepals and narrower petals.
Synonyms Liparis rotundifolia Cogn. 1909
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; *Studies in the Family Orchidaceae Fascile 3 Ames 1908 drawing fide; Orchidaceae Antillanae Nir 2000 drawing fide
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