Liparis chapaensis Gagnep. 1932 SECTION Coriifolia Rchb.f

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Drawing

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LATE THROUGH MID

Common Name The Sa Pa Liparis [A town in northwestern Vietnam] - In China Ping Wo Yang Er Suan

Flower Size

Found in western Guangxi, southwestern Guizhou, northwestern Yunnan provinces of China, Vietnam and Myanmar on rocks in forests or on limestone slopes at elevations of 800 to 2000 meters as a mini-miniature sized, warm to cool growing epiphyte or lithophyte with closely spaced, more or less prostrate in basal half, subovoid-oblong pseudobulbs carrying a single. apical, narrowly elliptic, to oblong, chartaceous to thinly coriaceous, articulate and petiolate base leaf that blooms in the spring through mid fall on a slightly flattened, 1.6 to 4" [4 to 10 cm]long, narrowly winged, laxly several flowered, racemose inflorescence.

Synonyms Stichorkis chapaensis (Gagnep.) Marg., Szlach. 2008

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Dansk Bot Arkiv Bind 31 Nr 1 Orchids of Thailand IV Liparis Seidenfaden 1976 drawing fide; Identification of the Orchids [Orchidaceae Juss.] Vietnam Averyanov 1994; Native Orchids of China in Colour Singchi, Zhanhuo and Yibo 1999 photo fide; Orchids of Bhutan Pearce & Cribb 2002 photo fide; Native Orchids From Gaoligongshan Mountains, China Xiaohua, Xiaodong and Xiaochun 2009 photo fide; Flora of China Vol 25 Zhengyi, Raven & Deyuan 2009; Turczaninowia 19 (2): 34–49 Averanov, Vuong and Tam 2016 photo fide; Atlas of Native Orchids of China Vol 2 Jin Xiaohua, Li Jianwu and Ye Deping 2019 photo fide;

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