Liparis mentaweiensis J.J.Sm. 1920 SECTION Coriifolia Rchb.f
Photos by © Peter O'Byrne and The Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria Website
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Common Name The Mentawei Islands Liparis [Islands off of Sumatra]
Flower Size .24 to .28" [6 to 7 mm] long
Found in Sumatra at elevations under 1000 meters as a small sized, warm growing epiphyte with close set, flattened, oblong-ovate, elliptic in crossection, shiny green pseudobulbs carrying 2, erect, lanceolate, acute leaves that blooms in the late summer and fall on a terminal, flattened, apically incurved, winged, much longer than the leaves, peduncle to 2.52 to 2.8" [6.3 to 7 cm] long, terete, rachis obtuse angled, , 6" [15 cm] long, cylindrical, fairly densely many [28] flowered inflorescence.
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References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Orchids of Sumatra Comber 2001 photo fide
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