Liparis crispifolia Rchb.f. 1876 Photo by © Alexander Hirtz
Another Drawing Drawings by © Rchb.f and The Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria Website
Common Name The Curled Leaf Liparis
Flower Size .32" [8 mm]
Found in Ecuador at the base of mossy tree trunks at elevations around 2900 to 3200 meters as a small sized, cold growing vine-like terrestrial with a creeping, terete stem carrying mostly a single, ovate-cordiform, apiculate, cordate basally into the petiolate base leaf that blooms in the fall and winter on an erect, from the axil of the petiole, to .4" [1 cm] long, many flowered inflorescence with triangular floral bracts.
Synonyms Leptorkis crispifolia (Rchb.f.) Kuntze 1891
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Icones Plantarum Tropicarum Plate 510 Dodson 1989 drawing fide; Native Ecuadorian Orchids Vol 3 Dodson 2002 Photo fide;
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