Liparis miniata Schltr. 1911 SUBGENUS Cestichis SECTION Distichae

TYPE Drawing by © Schlechter and The Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria Website

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Common Name The Rust Red Liparis

Flower Size

Found in New Guinea on trees with dense trickling wet moss in mist forests at elevations around 1000 meters as a medium sized, warm to cool growing epiphyte with a elongate decumbent, thin rhizome giving rise to very distant, basally narrowly oblong, ancipitous pseudobulbs carrying a single, erect, linear-ligualte, acute, glabrous, 6 to 10" [15 to 25 cm] long, narrowing below into the base leaves that blooms in the late fall and early winter on an erect, thin, ancipitous, slightly compressed glabrous, as long as the leaves in length, 18" [45 cm] long overall, rachis distichous, to 4" [10 cm] long, densely many flowered inflorescence with bisected, erect-patent, imbricating, ovate, acuminate, dorsally carinate, shorter than the ovary floral bracts.

Schlechter states that the flowers are brilliant ocher red.

Synonyms Disticholiparis miniata (Schltr.) Marg. & Szlach. 2004; Stichorkis miniata (Schltr.) Ormerod & Naive 2019

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; *Orchidaceae of German New Guinea Schlechter 1911 Drawing fide; Lankesteriana 19(3) 253 - 61 Naive & Ormerod 2019 as Stichorkis miniata

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