Liparis latibasis J.J.Sm. 1913 SUBGENUS Menoneuron SECTION Platychilus

TYPE Drawing by © J J Smith

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Common Name The Broad Base Lip Liparis

Flower Size .72" [1.8 cm]

Found in western New Guinea in montane forests at elevations around 400 meters as a mini-miniature sized, hot growing epiphyte with closely spaced, strongly laterally compressed pseudobulbs enveloped basally by several, triangular, conduplicate sheaths and carrying a single, not articulated, oblong-obovate-elliptic, shortly broadly acuminate, acute, at the base conduplicate, mid-rib grooved above, sharply keeled beneath leaf that blooms in the later spring on an erect, short, arising through a conduplicate, acute, keeled, with the keel irregularly dentate-wavy, .44" [1.1 cm] long spathe, peduncle angular, ribbed, .8 to 1.2" [8 to 1.2 cm] long, rachis angular, .2" [.5 cm] long, 2-flowered inflorescence with patent, acute, triangular, concave floral bracts and carrying rather large fllowers floral bracts.

Synonyms Cestichis latibasis (J.J.Sm.) M.A.Clem. & D.L.Jones 2005; Stichorkis latibasis (J.J.Sm.) Marg., Szlach. & Kulak 2008

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; *Repert. Spec. Nov. Regni Veg. 11: 556 J J Smith 1913

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