Liparis insectifera Ridl. 1916 SUBGENUS Menoneuron SECTION Platychilus

Photo by © Andre Schuiteman

LATE ERALY

Common Name The Insect Carrying Liparis [refers to the flowers]

Flower Size

Found in western New Guinea in montane forests at elevations of 760 to 3575 meters as a miniature sized, warm to cold growing epiphyte and terrestrial on open slopes, mossy rock faces and subalpine tussocks with cylindrical pseudobulbs enveloped basally by 2, ovate, acte, papyraceous cataphyls and carrying 2, coriaceous, elliptic, acute, with 6 raised nerves [only when dried?], with several raised nerves, basally sheathed leaf that blooms in the late winter and early spring on an erect, rachis straight, 5.2" [13 cm] long overall, in the basal half rather thick, glabrous, carrying flowers in the upper half, to 14-flowered inflorescence with lanceolate, acute, floral bracts.

Synonyms Cestichis alpina (P.Royen) M.A.Clem. & D.L.Jones 2005; Cestichis insectifera (Ridl.) M.A.Clem. & D.L.Jones 2005; Liparis alpina P.Royen 1979; Stichorkis insectifera (Ridl.) Marg., Szlach. & Kulak 2008

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; *Trans. Linn. Soc. London, Bot. 9: 163 Ridley 1916; Alpine Fl. New Guinea 2: 700 P> Royen 1979 as L alpina drawing fide; Flora Malesiana Orchids of New Guinea Vol IV Shuiteman and de Vogel 2006

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------