Liparis grandiflora Ridl.1884
Photo by © Peter O'Byrne and The Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria Website
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Common Name The Large Flowered Liparis
Flower Size .84" [2.1 cm]
Found in Borneo in lowland riverine and primary forests at elevations of sealevel to 400 meters as a medium sized, hot growing terrestrial with a cylindric pseuedobulb carrying a single, broadly ovate, acute basally clasping leaf that blooms in the winter and summer on an erect, terminal, well spaced, several flowered inflorescence with color variable flowers that last about 10 days
Synonyms Leptorkis grandiflora (Ridl.) Kuntze 1891; Stichorkis grandiflora (Ridl.) Marg., Szlach. & Kulak 2008
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; A Checklist of the Orchids of Borneo Wood & Cribb 1994 drawing good; Orchids of Sarawak Beaman, Wood & Beaman etal 2001 photo fide; A to Z of South East Asian Orchid Species Vol 2 O'Byrne 2011 photo fide
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