Liparis laxa Schltr.1906
Plant and Flowers in situ New Caledonia Photos by © Edouard Faria
Common Name The Lax Liparis
Flower Size .4" [1 cm]
Found only in New Caledonia in scrub forests and between rocks as a small sized, warm to cool growing terrestrial or lithophyte with round, fleshy, slightly elongated pseudobulbs carrying 2 to 3, occasionally grey green, oblong, abtuse leaves that blooms in the spring on a terminal, erect, 5 to 15 flowered inflorescence
Synonyms Liparis laxa var. pluridentata (Kraenzl.) N.Hallé 1977; Liparis pluridentata Kraenzl. 1929; Stichorkis laxa (Schltr.) Marg., Szlach. & Kulak 2008
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Flore de la Nouvelle-Caledonie et Dependences Vol 8 Orchidaceae Halle 1977 drawing fide; Flore de la Nouvelle-Caledonie et Dependences Vol 8 Orchidaceae Halle 1977 as L laxa var pluridentata drawing fide; Native Orchids of New Caledonia Societe Neo-Caledonienne D'Orchidophile 1995 photo fide;
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