Liparis microcharis Schltr. 1924

Photo by © Gilles Grunenwald and His Angraecoid Orchid Photo Website

MID

Common Name The Insignificant Liparis

Flower Size .12" [3 mm]

Found in central Madagascar on humid rocks at elevations of 1600 to 2100 meters as a mini-miniature sized, cool to cold growing lithophyte with widely oval, slightly compressed pseudobulbs enveloped by 4, pale colored sheaths, the most recent pseudobulb carrying 2,, apical, narrowly lanceolate, acute to subacute leaves that blooms in the mid summer on an erect, 2 to 3 times longer than the leaves, peduncle generally univaginate, to 2" [5 cm] long, 3 to 6 flowered inflorescence with half the length of the pedicel floral bracts and carrying yellow flowers.

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References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Flora of Madagascar Perrier 1939/81 drawing fide; *Orchids of Madagascar Hermans, Du Puy, Cribb & Bosser 2007; Field Guide to the Orchids of Madagascar Cribb & Hermans 2009 photo fide; A la Recherche des Orchidees de Madagascar Hervouet 2018 photo fide;

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