Liparis verticillata G.A.Romero & Garay 1999 SECTION Ramosae Ridl.

TYPE Drawing by B Angell courtesy of Dr Leslie Garay

Common Name The Whorled Liparis [refers to the flowers position on the inflorescence]

Flower Size

Found in Bolivar state of Venezuela in mosses and selaginellas at elevations up to 2000 meters as a mini-miniature sized, cool growing terrestrial with a thin rhizome giving rise to distant, minute, enveloped by leaf sheath bases carrying alternate or in pairs, deltoid-ovate, acute, condulicate below into the broad petiolate base leaves that blooms on a terminal, to 2" [5 cm] long, peduncle thin, naked, rachis whorled, few flowered inflorescence with linear-lanceolate, acuminate, somewhat shorter than the ovary floral bracts.

Separated from others in the section Ramosae by the small, alternate leaves with relatively broad petioles, shortened rachis and the ovate-lanceolate lip.

Synonyms

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;

*Harvard Papers in Botany Vol 4 # 2 6 Schedulae Orchidum II Garay 1999 Drawing fide;

Materials to the Orchid Flora of Colombia Vol IV:93 Szlatchetko & Kolanowska 2023 drawing fide

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