Liparis disticha [Thouars] Lindl. 1826 SUBGENUS Cestichis SECTION Distichae Photo by © Pieter C. Brouwer and his Nature Photo Website

Another Inflorescence Photo by © Lourens Grobler

Part Shade Warm CoolFall

Common Name The Distichous Liparis

Flower Size .15" [4mm]

Found in the Comoros Islands, Mauritius, Reunion, India, Sri Lanka; Myanmar, Borneo, Java, Lesser Sunda Islands, Malaysia, the Philippines and Sumatra on mossy trees at elevations of 800 to 1750 meters as a medium to large sized, warm to cool growing terrestrial with compressed pseudobulbs carrying a single, apical, linear-lanceolate, acute leaf that is much wider that the leaf of L gibbosa and blooms in the fall on a basal, 9.6" [to 24 cm] long, compressed, successively several flowered with 2 to 3 open at any one time inflorescence that gradually lengthens with each flowers appearance.

L mucronata is similar but differs most in the reflexed petals and where the single tooth on each side of the column is located. In L disticha it is much closer to the apex.

Synonyms Cestichis disticha (Thouars) Pfitzer 1888; Disticholiparis disticha (Thouars) Marg. & Szlach. 2004; Disticholiparis gregaria (Lindl.) Marg. & Szlach. 2004; Leptorkis disticha (Thouars) Kuntze 1891; Liparis gregaria Lindl. 1830 Malaxis disticha Thouars 1822; Stichorkis disticha (Thouars) Pfitzer 1897;

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Historie Particulier des Plantes Orchidees Recueilles Sur Trois Iles Australes d'Afrique Thouars 1822 as Malaxis disticha drawing fide; Die Orchideen Von Java J.J.Sm. 1905 as L mucronata; Die Orchideen Von Java Figuren Atlas J.J.Smith 1908 as L mucronata drawing fide; Orchidaceae of German New Guinea Schlechter 191; Orchids of Java Comber 1990 as L mucronata photo ok ; The Plants of Mount Kinabalu Vol 2 Orchids Beaman, Wood, Beaman & Beaman 1993 as L mucronata; A Checklist of the Orchids of Borneo Wood & Cribb 1994 as L mucronata ; Orchids of Sumatra Comber 2001 as L mucronata photo ok?; The Orchids of Mount Kinabalu Vol 2 Wood, Beaman, Lamb, Chu Lun and Beaman 2011 as Stichorkis mucronata

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