Liparis flabellata J.J.Sm. 1908 SUBGENUS Menoneuron SECTION Platychilus

TYPE Drawing by © J J SMith

LATE EARLY

Common Name The Fan-Shaped Liparis [refers to the lip]

Flower Size 1.1" [2.75 cm] long

Found in western New Guinea in lower montane forests at elevations around 800 meters as a miniature sized, warm growing epiphyte with close set, very small pseudobulbs carrying a single, erect, narrowly lanceolate, gradually acuminate, underneath with c. 5 prominent nerved, gradually narrowed and conduplicate towards the base leaf that blooms in the late winter and early spring on an erect, arising through an acutely acuminate, .8" [2 cm] long spathe, peduncle 22.4" [56 cm] long, rachis c. 1.96" [4.8 cm] long, laxly few to about 6 flowered inflorescence with linear-lanceolate, acute floral bracts.

Synonyms Cestichis flabellata (J.J.Sm.) M.A.Clem. & D.L.Jones 2005; Stichorkis flabellata (J.J.Sm.) Marg., Szlach. & Kulak 2008

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; *Repert. Spec. Nov. Regni Veg. 19:27 J J Smith 1908

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