Liparis compressa [Bl] Lindl. 1830 SUBGENUS Cestichis SECTION Distichae
Photos courtesy of Peter O'Byrne, Dr. E.F. de Vogel, André Schuiteman and Jaap Vermeulen and Their Netherlands National Herbarium Website
Photos by David Kuehn
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Common Name The Compressed Liparis
Flower Size .4" [1 cm]
Found in Malaysia, Vietnam, Sulawesi, Borneo, Java, Sumatra and the Philippines in highland primary cloud forests at elevations of 800 to 2000 meters as a small to medium sized, warm to cool growing epiphyte on mossy stems of old trees on top of hills with ovoid, flattened pseudobulbs enveloped basally by several sheaths and carrying a single, apical, acute, channeled basally leaf that blooms on an erect then arched, flattened and winged inflorescence with single, successive flowers.
Synonyms Cestichis compressa (Blume) Ames 1905; Disticholiparis compressa (Blume) Marg. & Szlach. 2004; Leptorchis compressa [Bl.] Kuntze 1891; Liparis compressa var maxima J.J. Sm 1931; *Malaxis compressa Bl. 1825; Stichorkis compressa [Bl] J.J.Wood 2011
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Studies in the Family Orchidaceae Vol 1 Ames 1905 as Cestichis compressa drawing fide; Bonplandia Rchb.f 1857; Die Orchideen Von Java J.J.Sm. 1905; Die Orchideen Von Java Figuren Atlas J.J.Smith 1908 drawing fide; Studies in the Family Orchidaceae Fascile 2 Ames 1908 as Cestichis compressa; Orchidaceae of German New Guinea Schlechter 1911; Flora of Malaya Vol 1 Holttum 1957; Encyclopedia of Cultivated Orchids Hawkes 1965; Orchidiana Philipiniana Vol 1 Valmayor 1984; Orchids of Java Comber 1990 photo ok; The Orchids of Penninsular Malaysia and Singapore Seidenfaden & Wood 1992 drawing fide; The Plants of Mount Kinabalu Vol 2 Orchids Beaman, Wood, Beaman & Beaman 1993 photo fide; A Checklist of the Orchids of Borneo Wood & Cribb 1994 drawing fide; A Checklist of the Orchids of Borneo Wood & Cribb 1994 as L compressa var maxima; Orchids of Sumatra Comber 2001 photo ok; Orchids of Sarawak Beaman, Wood & Beaman etal 2001; photo ok; Lindleyana Vol 17 No 1 2002; Flora Malesiana Orchids of the Philippines Vol I Agoo, Shuiteman and de Vogel 2003; Australian Orchid Review Vol 69 No 5 2004 photo; Wild Orchids of the Cameron Highlands REACH 2009 photo fide; The Orchids of Mount Kinabalu Vol 2 Wood, Beaman, Lamb, Chu Lun and Beaman 2011 as Stichorkis compresssa photo fide; Wild Orchids of Penninsular Malaysia Ong, O'Byrne, Yong & Saw 2011 photo fide; A to Z of South East Asian Orchid Species Vol 2 O'Byrne 2011 photo fide; Malesian Orchid Journal Vol 15 P.O'Byrne, 2015 as stichorkis compressa photo/drawing fide; Turczaninowia 19 (2): 34–49 Averanov, Vuong and Tam 2016 photo fide
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