Liparis chapaensis Gagnep. 1932 Photo © by www.orchidata.com and Hoa Lan Vietnam Photo Website

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, Vietnam and Myanamar 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 ; 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;

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