Liparis pallida (Blume) Lindl. 1830 SECTION Cestichis

Plant and Flowers Photo by © Rici Ricardo

Common Name or Meaning The Pale Liparis

Flower Size 3/4" [1.8 cm]

Found in Java, Sumatra and the Philippines in montane forests at elevations of 1000 to 2500 meters as a medium sized sized, warm to cool growing terrestrial with close set, basally ovoid, gradually narrowing towards the apex pseudobulbs carrying asingle, apical, lanceolate, acute, arising from a narrow base leaf that blooms in the fall and winter on a terminal, erect, to 16" [40 cm] long, to 50 flowered, longer than the leaf inflorescence with lanceolate, acute, longer than the pedicels and ovaries floral bracts.

Synonyms Leptorkis pallida (Blume) Kuntze 1891; *Malaxis pallida Blume 1825; Stichorkis pallida (Blume) Marg. 2008

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Orchids of Java Comber 1990; Orchids of Sumatra Comber 2001

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