Liparis ochracea Ridl. 1885

Photo by the MOBOT Madagascar Website

EARLIER

Common Name The Ochre-Yellow Liparis

Flower Size .25" [8 mm]

Found in Madagascar in humid, lichen rich evergreen forests at elevations of 700 to 2000 meters as a small sized, warm to cool growing terrestrial with 2 pseudobulbs, the oldest obliquely diverging and the younger enveloped by 3 to 4, elliptical to oval elliptical, obtus to apiculate, compressed and rounded basally, gradually narrowing below into the clasping, petiolate base leaves that blooms in the summer and earlier fall on an erect, to 6" [to 15 cm] long, 6 to 12 flowered inflorescence

Synonyms Leptorchis connata (Ridl.) Kuntze 1891; Leptorchis ochracea (Ridl.) Kuntze 1891; Liparis connata Ridl. 1885; Liparis hildebrandtiana Schltr. 1924

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Flora of Madagascar Perrier 1939/81 as L hildebrantiana; Orchids of Madagascar Hermans, Du Puy, Cribb and Bosser 2007; Field Guide to the Orchids of Madagascar Cribb & Herman 2009 photo fide; Les Orchidees de Madagascar Bosser & Lecoufle 2015 photo fide; A la Recherche des Orchidees de Madagascar Hervouet 2018 photo fide;

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