Liparis cinnabarina J.J.Sm. 1908 SUBGENUS Menoneuron SECTION Platychilus

TYPE Drawing by © J J SMith

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Common Name The Cinnabar Red Liparis

Flower Size .48" [1.2 cm]

Found in western New Guinea in lowland forests as a miniature to small sized, hot growing epiphyte with a long creeping rhizome enveloped by large, broad, conduplicate, acuminate, sharply keeled, membraneous sheaths and giving rise to very small, compressed, .2 to .8" [.5 to 2 cm] between each pseudobulb carrying a single, lanceolate. shortly acuminate, acute, mucronate, sharply keeled, conduplicate in to the narrowly petiolate base leaf that blooms in the late fall on an erect, shorter than the leaf, arising through a conduplicate, acutely acuminate, keeled spathe, peduncle angular, 1.4 to 1.6" [3.5 to 4 cm] long, rachis short, flexuose, laxly 2 to 3 flowered inflorescence with ovate-lanceolate, acuminate, concave floral bracts and carrying raqther large, vermillion colored flowers.

Synonyms Cestichis cinnabarina (J.J.Sm.) M.A.Clem. & D.L.Jones 2005; Stichorkis cinnabarina (J.J.Sm.) Marg., Szlach. & Kulak 2008

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; * Repert. Spec. Nov. Regni Veg. 19:26 J J Smith 1908

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