Liparis nonatra Ormerod 2012 SECTION Ramosae Ridl.
TYPE Drawing by © Ormerod
Drawing by © Krol
Common Name The Not Black Liparis [refers to its leaves drying brown instead of black]
Flower Size
Found in Morona-Santiago and Zamora-Chinchipe provinces of Ecuador in wet montane forests at elevations of 1370 to 2000 meters as a medium sized, cool growing terrestrial with a creeping, terete rhizome giving rise to pairs of broadly ovate-cordate to suborbicular-ovate, acute to subacuminate, cordate below into the petiolate base leaves, that bloooms at any time of the year on an erect, peduncle 3.6 to 4.6" [9 to 11.5 cm] long, rachis 2 to 3.6" [5 to 9 cm] long, laxly to sublaxly, successively few, several flowered inflorescence with lanceolate, acute, shorter than the ovary floral bracts and carrying pale mauve to purple flowers with a pale mauve lip with purplish lines.
"Similar to L hirtzii but always has 2 paired leaves, flowers without a callus on the lip and a stouter gynostemmium. The brown vs black dry leaves is not diagnostic as there have been collections with black drying leaves" Szlatchetko & Kolanowska 2023
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
*Harvard Pap. Bot. 17: 172 Ormerod 2012 drawing fide;
Materials to the Orchid Flora of Colombia Vol IV:97 Szlatchetko & Kolanowska 2023 drawing fide
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