Liparis cordiformis C.Schweinf. 1937

Plant and Flower ensitu in Mexico Photo courtesy of © Edouard Faria

EARLY

Common Name The Heart-Shaped Liparis [refers to the leaf]

Flower Size .2" [5 mm]

Found in Jalisco, Michoacan, Mexico, Morelos, and Oaxaca states of Mexico, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras and Nicaragua in mid elevation cloud forests at elevations around 2300 meters as a miniature sized, cool growing terrestrial orchid with small subterranean pseudobulbs giving rise to a green stem carryig a single, verde, cordiform, round leaf with undulate margins and blooms in the summer through early fall on a filiform, slender, 2 .4" [6 cm] long, racemose, 3 to 5 flowered inflorescence

CAUTION: I am a bit apprehensive with this ID as the leaf is definitely not cordate, nor undulate on the margins and there are no lateral sepals visible, not is the lip conduplicate.

Synonyms Liparis fantastica var. cordiformis (C.Schweinf.) L.O.Williams 1950

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Las Orquideas de El Salvador Vol III Hamer 1981 drawing/photo not; Icones Planetarum Tropicarum Plate 1027 Hamer 1984 Drawing not; Orchids of Guatemala and Belize Ames & Correll 1985; Icones Orchidacearum fascile 10 plate 1037 Hagsater & Soto 2008 drawing not

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