Liparis retusa Fawc. & Rendle 1909 SECTION Retusae Ormerod

Drawing by © Ernesto Foldats

Common Name The Retuse Liparis [Refers to the blunt ? apex of the lip?]

Flower Size .4" [1 cm]

Found in Bolivia and Peru in humus in montane forests at elevations around 2550 meters as a miniature sized, cold growing terrestrial with a creeping, terete rhizome giving rise to distant, 1.2 to 1.4" [3 to 3.5 cm] between each, obliquely compressed pseudobulbs carrying a single, apical, cordate, subacuminate, petiolate base leaf that blooms in the fall on an erect,, peduncle [3.6 to 5.3 cm] long, rachis [4.5 to 7.5 cm] long, sublaxly 10 to 20 flowered inflorescence with lanceoalte, acute, much shorter than the ovary floral bracts and carrying flowers with unknown colors.

Synonyms

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;

* J. Bot. 47: 128 Fawcett & Rendle 1909;

Flora de Venezuela Volumen XV Primera Parte Foldats 1969 as L neuroglossa drawing fide;

Icones Planetarum Tropicarum Plate 540 Vasquez & Dodson 1982 as Liparis retusa drawing = L nigrescens;

Native Ecuadorian Orchids Vol 3 Dodson 2002 drawing = L nigrescens fide;

Materials to the Orchid Flora of Colombia Vol IV:86 Szlatchetko & Kolanowska 2023 drawing fide

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