Liparis goodyeroides Schltr. 1906 Drawing by © Schlechter and The Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria Website

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Common Name The Goodyera-Like Liparis

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Found in Guinea, Liberia, Nigeria, Cameroon and the Gulf of Guinea islands in forests, gallery swamp forests and hillsides with rocky soils at elevations around 500 to 1000 meters as a warm growing lithophyte without pseudobulbs and a creeping, elongating, leafy in the apical part stems carrying 5 to 13, spirally arranged along the stem, broadly to ovate-lanceolate, acute, thin, delicate, spreading, petiolate base leaves that blooms mostly in the spring on an erect, terminal, 1.2 to 1.8" [3 to 4.5 cm] long, rachis narrowly winged, rather dense, subcorymbose, 10 to 15 flowered inflorescence carrying small, green pink to green purple flowers often with a purple lip.

Synonyms Liparis joannis-kornasii Szlach. 1993

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Orchidaceae of Central West Africa Vol 2 Szlatchenko 2010 drawing fide;

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