Liparis nephrocardia Schltr. 1924

Drawing by © Oliver Whalley and The ResearchGate Website

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Common Name The Kidney-Heart Shaped Liparis [refers to the lip shape]

Flower Size

Found in southeastern Madagascar in humid forests at elevations of 600 to 1600 meters as a miniature to small sized, warm to cool growing epiphyte with 2 conical, erect pseudobulbs carrying 2 to 3 elliptic-lanceolate, acute to acuminate, attenuted below into the petiolate based leaves that blooms in the late spring and summer on a terminal, erect, 5 to 13" [12.5 to 32.5 cm] long overall, peduncle provided with a basal sheath and 2 to 5 sterile bracts above, loosely 4 to 12 flowered inflorescence with lanceolate-acuminate, as long as to longer than the ovary floral bracts and carrying flowers that open greenish and become brownish with age.

Synonyms

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Les Orchidees de Madagascar Bosser & Lecoufle 2015 photo fide; A la Recherche des Orchidees de Madagascar Hervouet 2018 photo fide;

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