Liparis dalessandroi Dodson 1984 SECTION Retusae Ormerod

Drawing by © Dalstrom

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Common Name D'Alessandro's Liparis [American Orchid Enthusiast in Ecuador and Nurseryman in the USA]

Flower Size .32" [8 mm]

Found in Loja province of southern Ecuador in dry montane cloud forests at elevations around 2200 meters as a miniature sized, cold growing terrestrial with a creeping, terete stem carrying mostly a single, conduplicate, heavily parellel veined on the underside, broadly ovate, bluntly apiculate, cordate basally into the 1.2" [3 cm] long, petiolate base leaf that blooms in the late spring through fall on an erect, from the axil of the petiole, peduncle to 2.4" [6 cm] long, rachis to 1.6" [4 cm] long, loosely many flowered inflorescence with lanceolate, acute, half as long as the pedicellate ovary floral bracts and carrying resupinate, green flowers with a white lip with red veins.

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References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;

*Icones Plantarum Tropicarum Plate 931 Dodson 1984 drawing fide;

Materials to the Orchid Flora of Colombia Vol IV:76 Szlatchetko & Kolanowska 2023 drawing fide

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