Liparis distans C.B. Clarke 1889 SECTION Coriifolia Rchb.f

Photo by Roman Maruska

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Common Name or Meaning The Far Apart Liparis - In China Da Hua Yang Er Suan

Flower Size 1" [2.5 cm]

Found in Assam, the eastern Himalayas, Hainan, southern Yunnan and Sichuan provinces of China, Myanmar, Thailand, Laos, Cambodia, Vietnam and the Philippines in humid, mossy, mixed and coniferous forests at elevations of 500 to 2100 meters as a shady, warm to cold growing epiphyte on mossy branches or lithophyte on steep rocky river slopes on mossy limestone rocks or terrestrial in shallow soils with an elongate pseudobulb carrying a few leaves that blooms in the spring, summer and fall on a 12" [30 cm] long, few flowered, racemose inflorescence.

Synonyms Leptorkis distans (C.B.Clarke) Kuntze 1891; Liparis macrantha Hook.f. 1889; Liparis oxyphylla Schltr. 1919; Liparis yunnanensis Rolfe 1903; Stichorkis distans (C.B.Clarke) Marg., Szlach. & Kulak, 2008

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; The Orchids of Thailand Seidenfaden & Smitnand 1959 as L sp GARRETT 563 pg 167 drawing not = L nigra; The Orchids of Thailand Seidenfaden & Smitinand 1965 corrections as L macrantha not = L nigra; Dansk Bot Arkiv Bind 31 Nr 1 Orchids of Thailand IV Liparis Seidenfaden 1976 drawing fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 47 No 8 1978; Indian Orchids, Guide to Identification and Culture vol 2 Pradhan 1979 drawing fide; Orchidiana Philipiniana Vol 1 Valmayor 1984; Identification of the Orchids [Orchidaceae Juss.] Vietnam Averyanov 1994; The Wild Orchids of China Tsi, Chen & Mori 1997; Native Orchids of China in Colour Singchi, Zhanhuo and Yibo 1999 photo fide; Lindleyana Vol 15 No 4 2000; Orchids of Bhutan Pearce & Cribb 2002; Flora Malesiana Orchids of the Philippines Vol I Agoo, Shuiteman and de Vogel 2003; Orchids of India A Glimpse Misra 2007; Native Orchids From Gaoligongshan Mountains, China Xiaohua, Xiaodong and Xiaochun 2009 photo fide; A Field Guide to the Orchids of China Singchi, Zhongjian, Yibo, Xiaohua and Zhanhuo 2009 photo ok; Flora of China Vol 25 Zhengyi, Raven & Deyuan 2009; Flora of China Vol 25 Illustrations Zhengyi, Raven & Deyuan 2010 drawing;The Atlas of Wild Orchids in Hainan Island, China Shenyan and Junmei 2010 photo fide; The Wild Orchids in Yunnan Xu Xiang Ye & Liu 2010 photos fide; Gard. Bull. Singapore 67[1]:114 Kurzweil & Lwin 2015 photo fide; Atlas of Native Orchids of China Vol 2 Jin Xiaohua, Li Jianwu and Ye Deping 2019 photo fide;

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