Liparis deflexa Hook.f. 1890 SECTION Mollifolle Type Drawing From Icones 21 Hooker 1890.

Common Name The Deflexed Liparis

Flower Size .35" [7mm]

Found in the western Himalayas, India, Assam, Nepal, the eastern Himalayas, Myanamar, Laos, Cambodia and Vietnam at elevations around 600 meters as a small sized, hot to 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.

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;

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