Liparis ramosa Poepp. & Endl. 1836 SECTION Ramosae Ridl.
Photo by © Rosio Vega Quispe and The I Naturalist Website
Drawing by © A Krol and Materials to the Orchid Flora of Colombia Vol IV:100 Szlatchetko & Kolanowska 2023
Common Name The Branched Liparis
Flower Size .6" [1.5 cm]
Found in Colombia, Ecuador and Peru in wet cloud forests at elevations of 1000 to 2650 meters as a small sized, cool to cold growing terrestrial with a trailing, decumbent, terete rhizome giving rise to 2, deciduous, ovate, deccurent, acute, subfleshy, dark green, the upper large than the lower, , channeled below intothe petiolate base leaf that blooms in the summer on a terminal, erect, 2 angled, to 8" [20 cm] long, 18 to 24 flowered inflorescence with ascending, triangular, shorter above floral bracts and carrying spreading flowers.
Characterized by its relatively large flowers, obovate lip and small bilobed callus." Szlatchetko & Kolanowska 2023
Synonyms Leptorkis ramosa (Poepp. & Endl.) Kuntze 1891
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
* Nov. Gen. Sp. Pl. 2: 9 Poepp. & Endl. 1836;
Bonplandia (Hannover) 3: 73 Rchb.f 1855 as Sturmia ramosa;
Revis. Gen. Pl. 2: 671 Kuntze 1891
Orchids of Peru Schweinfurth Vol 2 1959;
Icones Planetarum Tropicarum Plate 934 Dodson 1984 drawing not;
Icones Orchidacearum Peruviarum Plate 277 Bennett & Christenson 1995 drawing ok;
Native Colombian Orchids Vol 6 COS 1998 photo fide;
Native Ecuadorian Orchids Vol 3 Dodson 2002 photo ok;
Orchids, A Colombian Treasure Vol 3 Ortiz & Uribe 2019 drawing fide;
Materials to the Orchid Flora of Colombia Vol IV:100 Szlatchetko & Kolanowska 2023 drawing fide
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