Liparis finisterrae Schltr. 1911 SECTION Elatae

Plant Ensitu in New Guinea Photos courtesy of Dr. E.F. de Vogel, André Schuiteman, and Jaap Vermeulen and Their Netherlands National Herbarium Website. and Flora Malesiana Vol IV

Common Name The Finisterre Liparis [a Mountain range in New Guinea]

Flower Size

Found in Papua New Guinea in lower montane ridge forests under shrubs at elevations of 600 to 900 meters as a small sized, hot to warm growing terrestrial with a crowded erect stem with a cylindrical base enveloped by high clasping cataphyls, and 2 to 3 leafed above the middle with erect-patent, broadly elliptic, acuminate, glabrous, petiolate base leaves that blooms in the spring and summer on a straight, angular, glabrous, longer than the leaves, rather densely several flowered inflorescence with patent to spreading, lanceolate, acuminate flroal bracts.

Synonyms

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Flora Malesiana Orchids of New Guinea Vol IV Shuiteman and de Vogel 2006

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