Liparis laticuneata C.Schweinf. 1951 SECTION Decumbentes Garay & G A Romero
Photo by © Saul Altamirano A. and The Parque Nacional Carrasco, Cochabamba Bolivia, Orquideas del Proyecto Hidroelectrico Ivirizu Website
Drawing by © Dodson & Vasquez
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Common Name The Broadly Cuneate Liparis [refers to the cordate leaf base]
Flower Size .4" [1 cm]
Found in Ecuador, Bolivia and Peru on mossy rocks in shade of large trees at elevations around 1860 to 2950 meters as a small to medium sized, cool to cold growing, prostrate, repent, occasionally branching epiphyte or terrestrial with an elongate, prostrate then ascending, obviously noded, scaley stem carrying a single [for each node], ovate, acute to acuminate, cordate, cuneate below into the petiolate base leaf that blooms in the late spring through later summer on a lateral, erect, racemose, to 3" [7.5 cm] long, successively few, subdenselymany flowered inflorescence with lanceolate, acute floral bracts and carrying pale greenish-yellow to greenish flowers.
Vegetatively similar to L brachystalix Florally siimilar to L elegantula.
Synonyms
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
* Bot. Mus. Leafl. 15: 104 C Schweinfurth 1951
Icones Plantarum Tropicarum Plate 539 Dodson & Vasquez 1982 drawing fide;
The Parque Nacional Carrasco, Cochabamba Bolivia, Orquideas del Proyecto Hidroelectrico Ivirizu Website 2021 photo fide;
Materials to the Orchid Flora of Colombia Vol IV:88 Szlatchetko & Kolanowska 2023 drawing fide
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