Liparis pilifera J.J.Sm. 1932 SUBGENUS Sturmia SECTION Liparis

Photo by © Peter O'Byrne and The Swiss Orchid Foundation At the Jany Renz Herbaria Website

Common Name The Three Calli Liparis

Flower Size .6" [1.4 cm]

Found in Sumatra in wet areas at elevations of 1300 to 2000 meters as a miniature to small sized, cool growing terrestrial with a creeping, non-branching, terete rhizome giving rise to a solitary, large, ovate, long-acuminate, rounded basally into the very short petiolate base leaf that blooms in the summer on an erect, many flowered, lax, facing all directions, to 10.8" [27 cm] long, basally thickened, winged inflorescence.

Sometimes stated to be conspecific with L purpureoviridis but differs mainly in having a hairy lip fringe towards the apex only while L purpureoviridis has hairs all along the margin of the lip.

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References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Dansk Bot Arkiv Bind 31 Nr 1 Liparis Seidenfaden 1976 drawing fide; Orchids of Sumatra Comber 2001; A to Z of South East Asian Orchid Species Vol 1 O'Byrne 2001 photo fide;

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