Liparis habenarina (F.Muell.) Benth. 1873 SUBGENUS Sturmia SECTION Liparis

Plant in situ Photos © courtesy of Graham Corbin and ANOS KABI website

Common Name or Meaning The Habenaria-Like Liparis - The Common Hobgoblin Orchid

Flower Size .4 to .5” [1 to 1.2 cm]

Found in the New Guinea, Sumatra, Northern Territories, New South Wales and Queensland at elevations of sea level to 1200 meters as a miniature to small sized, hot to cool growing terrestrial that lies dormant without leaves through the winter with 2 ovoid, pseudobulbs enveloped completely in youth by imbricate leaf-bearing sheaths and carrying 2 to 3, 5 veined, plicate, ovate, oblong to obovate, dark to yellowish green, thin textured, gradually narrowing below in the conduplicate base leaves that blooms in the summer and fall on a stiffly erect, [20 to 60 cm] long, 4 winged, 8 to 22 flowered inflorescence.

Synonyms Empusa habenarina (F.Muell.) M.A.Clem. & D.L.Jones 2004; Leptorchis habenarina (F.Muell.) Kuntze 1891; *Sturmia habenarina F.Muell.1864

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Orcidaceae of Germn New Guinea Schlechter 1911; AOS Bulletin Vol 35 No 4 1966; Orchids of Australia Nicholls 1969 drawing fide; Native Australian Orchids Jones 2006 as Empusa habenarina photo good

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