Liparis trachyglossa Schltr. 1911 SUBGENUS Cestichis SECTION Distichae

TYPE Drawing by © Schlechter and The Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria Website

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Common Name The Rough Lip Liparis [refers to the papillose-asperate lip]

Flower Size

Found in New Guinea on tree in forests at elevations around 800 meters as a medium sized, warm growing epiphyte with an elongate, decumbent rhizome giving rise to distant, narrowly stem shaped, basally thickened, laterally compressed pseudobulbs carrying a single, erect, linear, acute to subacuminate, glabrous, 8 to 12" [20 to 30 cm] long, narrowing below into the base leaves that blooms in the later winter on an erect, thin, ancipitous, slightly compressed glabrous, a little shorter than the leaves in length, peduncle 5.6 to 9.6" [14 to 24 cm] long, distichous, to 1.8" [4.5 cm] long, densely many flowered inflorescence with erect-patent, bisected, imbricating, ovate, acuminate, shorter than the ovary floral bracts.

Schlechter states that the flowers are greenish yellow.

Synonyms Disticholiparis trachyglossa (Schltr.) Marg. & Szlach. 2004; Lankesteriana 19(3) 253 - 61 Naive & Ormerod 2019 as Stichorkis

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; *Orchidaceae of German New Guinea Schlechter 1911 Drawing fide; Lankesteriana 19(3) 253 - 61 Naive & Ormerod 2019 as Stichorkis trachygflossa

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