Liparis kinabaluensis J.J.Wood 1990
Photos by Kew/J J Wood 1997
Common Name The Mt Kinabalu Liparis
Flower Size
Found in Sabah Borneo in lower montane forests in rocky places at elevations around 800 to 1800 meters as a small sized, cool growing epiphyte or occasional lithophyte with a creeping stem giving rise to ovoid pseudobulbs enveloped by papery brown, ovate, acute, carinate, imbricate cataphylls and carrying a single, smooth, coriaceous, green, oblong-elliptic, acute, subulate-apiculate, condulicate below into the basally clasping base leaf that blooms in the fall and winter on an erect, pale green, obscurely sulcate, peduncle 2 to 3.2" [5 to 8 cm] long, rachis 1.8 to 4" [4.5 to 10 cm] long, subdense, many flowered inflorescence with triangular-ovate, acuminate, thin textured, whitish green, as long as the ovary floral bracts and carrying non-resupinate, faintly cucumber scented, cream colored flowers with a basal orange flush on the lip.
Synonyms Stichorkis kinabaluensis (J.J.Wood) Marg., Szlach. & Kulak 2008
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; The Plants of Mount Kinabalu Vol 2 Orchids Beaman, Wood, Beaman & Beaman 1993 drawing fide; A Checklist of the Orchids of Borneo Wood & Cribb 1994; Orchids of Borneo Vol 3 Wood 1997 drawing/photo fide; The Orchids of Mount Kinabalu Vol 1 Wood, Beaman, Lamb, Chu Lun and Beaman 2011 photo/drawing fide; The Orchids of Mount Kinabalu Vol 2 Wood, Beaman, Lamb, Chu Lun and Beaman 2011
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