Liparis glossula Rchb.f. 1876 SECTION Liparis
Photo by © Jin Xiaohua
Drawing by © R Pantling and The Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria
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Common Name The Toungue-Like Liparis - In China Fang Chun Yang Er Suan
Flower Size .4 to .6" [1 to 1.5 cm]
Found in the western Himalayas, the Chinese Himalayas, southern Yunnan, the eastern Himalayas and Nepal in forests, forest margins and thickets at elevations of 2200 to 3200 meters as a miniature to small sized, cold growing terrestrial with tufted, oblong to ovoid pseudoibulbs carrying 1, oblong to linear-oblong, obtuse to subacute leaf that blooms in the late spring and early summer on an erect to horizontal, ridged, ebracteate, glabrous, 4 to 9" [10 to 22.5 cm] long, laxly 7 to 10 flowered inflorescence with linear, acute, single veined floral bracts.
Synonyms Leptorkis glossula (Rchb.f.) Kuntze 1891
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; The Orchids of Sikkim-Himalaya Part 1 King & Pantling 1898 drawing fide; The Orchids of North-Western Himalaya Vol IX Part II Duthie 1906; Encyclopedia of Cultivated Orchids Hawkes 1965; Dansk Bot Arkiv Bind 31 Nr 1 Liparis Seidenfaden 1976 drawing fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 47 #8 1978; Indian Orchids, Guide to Identification and Culture vol 2 Pradhan 1979 drawing fide; Orchids of Kumaun Himalayas Pangtey, Samant and Rawat 1991; Orchids of Bhutan Pearce & Cribb 2002; Orchids of India A Glimpse Misra 2007; Native Orchids From Gaoligongshan Mountains, China Xiaohua, Xiaodong and Xiaochun 2009 photo; Flora of China Vol 25 Zhengyi, Raven & Deyuan 2009; Flora of China Vol 25 Illustrations Zhengyi, Raven & Deyuan 2010 drawing fide; The Wild Orchids in Yunnan Xu Xiang Ye & Liu 2010 photo fide; LANKESTERIANA 15(1): 7—50. Jeewan Singh Jalal & J. Jayanthi 2015; Atlas of Native Orchids of China Vol 2 Jin Xiaohua, Li Jianwu and Ye Deping 2019 photo fide;
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