Liparis truncatula Schltr. 1911 SUBGENUS Sturmia SECTION Liparis Type Drawing by © Schlechter and The Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria Website

Common Name The Cut Off Liparis [refers to the apex of the lip]

Flower Size

Found in New Guinea in forests at elevations around 100 meters as a small sized, hot growing terrestrial with a very short rhizome giving rise to a cylindrical, terete stem carrying 3 to 4, suberect to erect-patent, oblique to broadly elliptic, acuminate, plicate, glabrous, petiolate base leaves that blooms in the early summer on a strict to substrict, angled, glabrous, 2.8" [7 cm] long laxly 6 to 10 flowered inflorescence with small, ovate, patent, glabrous, acuminate, much shorter than the ovary floral bracts.

Schlechter states that the flowers are pale yellow with a reddish lip.

Synonyms

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; *Orchidaceae of German New Guinea Schlechter 1911 Drawing fide;

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