Liparis downii Ridl. 1908

Drawing by © Seidenfaden and The Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria Website

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Common Name Down's Liparis

Flower Size .22" [5.5 mm]

Found in India, Myanmar, Thailand and Cambodia in moist deciduous hill forests at elevations of 800 to 1300 meters as a small sized, warm to cool growing terrestrial with an ovoid becoming globose-ovoid in time, axially compressed, dullwhite with brown scar marks pseudobulb carrying 2 to 3, subequal, sessile, narrowly elliptic-lanceolate, acute, petiolate base leaves that blooms in the late spring through summer on an erect, terminal, peduncle 4 angled, 3.6 to 4.48" [9 to 11.5 cm] long, 10" [25 cm] long, loosely 9 to 22 flowered inflorescence.

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References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; The Orchids of Thailand Seidenfaden & Smitnand 1959 pg 166; Dansk Bot Arkiv Bind 31 Nr 1 Orchids of Thailand IV Liparis Seidenfaden 1976 drawing fide; Orchids of Odisha Misra 2014 drawing fide

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