Liparis pauliana Hand.-Mazz.1921 SUBGENUS Sturmia SECTION Liparis

Plant and Flowers

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Full shade Warm cool Spring

Common Name Paul's Liparis - In China Chang Chung YangEr Suan

Flower Size .8 to 1.2" [2 to 3 cm]

Found in southern China in shady moist locales in forest or in rock crevasses at elevations of 600 to 1200 meters as a miniature sized, warm to cool growing terrestrial with ovoid to ovoid-oblong pseudobulbs enveloped by several, white, membraneous sheaths and carrying 2, ovate to ellitpic, herbaceous, crisped and irregular denticulate margins, slightly amplexicaule and petiolate base leaves that blooms in the spring on an erect, terete, 3 to 11.2" [7.5 to 28 cm] long, flattened, narrowly winged, racemose, laxly several flowered inflorescence

Synonyms

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Dansk Bot Arkiv Bind 31 Nr 1 Orchids of Thailand Liparis Seidenfaden 1976 drawing fide; Native Orchids of China in Colour Singchi, Zhanhuo and Yibo 1999 photo fide; Native Orchids of Shaanxi - Shaanxi Science & Technology Press 2007 photo fide; A Field Guide to the Orchids of China Singchi, Zhongjian, Yibo, Xiaohua and Zhanhuo 2009 photo fide; Flora of China Vol 25 Zhengyi, Raven & Deyuan 2009; Flora of China Vol 25 Illustrations Zhengyi, Raven & Deyuan 2010 drawing fide; Atlas of Native Orchids of China Vol 2 Jin Xiaohua, Li Jianwu and Ye Deping 2019 photo fide;

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