Liparis nigrescens Schltr. 1915 SECTION Ramosae Ridl.
Photos by © Francisco Tobar
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In situ Colombia Photo by © Arend De Wide
Drawing by © Ormerod
Common Name The Blackish Liparis
Flower Size
Found in Quindio, Tolima and Putumayo departments of Colombia, Pichincha and Tugurahua provinces of Ecuador in low scrubby cloud forest and montane forests at elevations around 2700 to 3300 meters as a small sized, cold growing epiphyte and terrestrial with a creeping, terete rhizome giving rise to pairs of broadly ovate-cordate, subacuminate, petiolate base leaves that blooms at any time of the year on a 2.6 to 4" [6.5 to 10 cm] long, rachis 1.88 to 3.8" [4.7 to 9.5 cm] long, successively several, many flowered inflorescence with broadly lanceolate to lanceolate, acute, shorter than the ovary floral bracts and carrying green to greenish white flowers with a light pink to lavender lip.
"Recognized within the section by its large flowers, .36 to .48" [9 to 12 mm] long, squarish lip with a weakly auriculate base carrying a small elliptic fovea [depression]."
Synonyms Liparis caloglossa Schltr. 1924
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
Repert. Spec. Nov. Regni Veg. 14: 119 Schlechter 1915
Repert. Spec. Nov. Regni Veg. Beih. 27: 22 Schlechter 1924
Icones Plantarum Tropicarum Plate 512 Series II Dodson 1989 = L crispifolia drawing fide
Native Ecuadorian Orchids Vol 3 Dodson 2002 photo not = L crispifolia;
Materials to the Orchid Flora of Colombia Vol IV:98 Szlatchetko & Kolanowska 2023 photos/drawing fide;
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