Liparis crispifolia Rchb.f. 1876 SECTION Decumbentes Garay & G A Romero
Photos by © Alexander Hirtz
Photo by © Alex Reynolds
Drawing by © Ames
Drawing by © Calaway Dodson/Bermeo
Common Name The Curled Leaf Liparis
Flower Size .32" [8 mm]
Found in Pichincha province of Ecuador at the base of mossy tree trunks at elevations around 2900 to 3200 meters as a small sized, cold growing vine-like terrestrial with a creeping, terete , decumbent, upper portion erect stem carrying distant ovate-cordate, acute to subacuminate, margin crispate-undulate, abruptly narrowing below basally into the petiolate base leaf that blooms peduncel to 1.6" [4 cm] long, rachis 1.6" [4 cm] long, laxly, successively 1 to few, many flowered inflorescence with lanceolate, acute, shorter to as long as the ovary floral bracts and carrying flowers with purplish-pink sepals, pale yellow green petals and a rich to dark purple lip.
Similar to L brachystalix but is easily distinguished by the larger flowers and conspicuous dark purple vs green lip.
Synonyms Leptorkis crispifolia (Rchb.f.) Kuntze 1891
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
Revis. Gen. Pl. 2: 671 Kuntze 1891 as Leptorkis crispifolia;
Icones Plantarum Tropicarum Plate 510 Dodson 1989 drawing not = to L brachystalix ;
Icones Plantarum Tropicarum Plate 510 Series II Dodson 1989 drawing not = L brachystalix;
Icones Plantarum Tropicarum Plate 512 Series II Dodson 1989 as L nigrescens drawing fide
Native Ecuadorian Orchids Vol 3 Dodson 2002 as L nigrescens Photo fide;
Materials to the Orchid Flora of Colombia Vol IV:91 Szlatchetko & Kolanowska 2023 drawing fide
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