Liparis deflexa Hook.f. 1890 SUBGENUS Sturmia SECTION Liparis
Photo by R Bhat\Drawing by © Seidenfaden and The Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria Website
Type Drawing From Icones 21 Hooker 1890.
Common Name The Deflexed Liparis
Flower Size .35" [7mm]
Found in the western Himalayas, India, Assam, Nepal, Bhutan, the eastern Himalayas, Myanmar, Laos, Cambodia and Vietnam at elevations around 600 meters as a small sized, warm growing terrestrial with a root bearing tuber giving rise to an erect, cylindric stem enveloped by 2 to 3 tight, short, subacute sheaths and carrying 2, arising from near the top of the stem, sub-opposite, elliptic, plicate, 7 nerved, acuminate, gradually narrowing below into the short, unequal petiolate base leaves that blooms in the summer on a erect, striate, 8" [20 cm] long, laxly several flowered inflorescence with a few reflexed bracts and a reflexed, as long as the ovary floral bract.
Joseph 1987 in Orchids of Nilgiris mentions that this species and L platyphylla are very close and may be conspecific, if so then L playphylla takes precedence.
Synonyms Leptorkis deflexa (Hook.f.) Kuntze 1891; Liparis flavoviridis Blatt. & McCann 1931; Liparis prazeri King & Pantl. 1897;
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Icones 21 Hooker 1890 drawing fide; Orchids of The Sikkim-Himalaya King & Pantling 1898 drawing fide; Orchids of the Northwestern Himalayas Duthie 1906; Dansk Bot Arkiv Bind 31 Nr 1 Orchids of Thailand IV Liparis Seidenfaden 1976 drawing fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 47 #8 1978; Indian Orchids, Guide to Identification and Culture vol 2 Pradhan 1979 drawing fide; Orchids of Bhutan Pearce & Cribb 2002; Identification of the Orchids [Orchidaceae Juss.] Vietnam Averyanov 1994; Orchids of Odisha Misra 2014 drawing/photo fide; LANKESTERIANA 15(1): 7—50. Jeewan Singh Jalal & J. Jayanthi 2015 photo fide; A Century of New Orchid Records in Bhutan Royal Government of Bhutan 2017 drawing/photo fide;
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