Liparis imerinensis Schltr. 1924
TYPE Photo by © G Gilles
TYPE Drawing by © Schlechter
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EARLY 
Common Name The Imerinamanjaka Liparis [an area in east central Madagascar]
Flower Size
Found in east central Madagascar in montane mossy forests at elevations of 700 to 2000 meters as a small sized, warm to cool growing terrestrial with 2 elongate pseudobulbs, the older divaricate and nearly flat, the newest with upright, carrying 2 to 3 oval-elliptic, shortly acuminate to apiculate, plicate, attenuate below into the shortly petiolate base leaves that blooms in the late spring, summer and early fall on an erect, mostly longer than the leaves, 2 to 6" [5 to 15 cm] long overall, rachis to 1.2 to 3.2" [3 to 8 cm] long, 5 to 16 flowered inflorescence with shorter than the pedicel floral bracts.
CAUTION The Flower photo above is missing the lip!
Synonyms
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Flora of Madagascar Perrier 1939/81; Orchids of Madagascar Hermans Du Puy, Cribb & Bosser 2007; Field Guide to the OPrchids of madagascar Cribb & Hermans 2009 photo ok; Les Orchidees de Madagascar Bosser & Lecoufle 2015 photo ok; A la Recherche des Orchidees de Madagascar Hervouet 2018 photo ok;
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