Liparis regnieri Finet 1908 SECTION Liparis

Another Inflorescence Photos by Butterfly and Orchid Gallery

Common Name Regnier's Liparis [French Orchid Collector in Vietnam 1800/early 1900's] - In China Yi Rui Yang Er Suan

Flower Size .6" [1.5 cm]

Found in the Chinese Himalayas, Myanamar, Thailand and Vietnam at elevations around 750 meters as a small sized, hot to warm growing terrestrial with a leafy stem enveloped almost completely by leaf sheaths and each carrying leaves that blooms on an axillary, glabrous, 10 to 14.8" [25 to 37 cm] long, densely many flowered inflorescence with lanceolate, very small floral bracts.

Synonyms Liparis craibiana Kerr 1927; Liparis dalatensis Guillaumin 1961

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; The Orchids of Bhutan Pearce & Cribb 2002; Flora of China Vol 25 Zhengyi, Raven & Deyuan 2009; The Wild Orchids in Yunnan Xu Xiang Ye & Liu 2010 photo okish

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