Liparis torta Hook.f. 1890 SECTION Cestichis Type Drawing From Icones 21 Hooker 1890.

Full Shade warm

Common Name The Twisted Liparis

Flower Size 1/2" [1.25 cm]

Found in Assam at elevations around 900 meters as a small sized, warm growing terrestrial with conical-ovoid pseudobulbs enveloped by triangular, acute, imbricating sheaths in youth and carrying a single apical, thinly coriaceous, plicate, 9 nerved, elliptic-lanceolate leaf that blooms on an erect, robust, 4 to 5" [10 to 12.5 cm] long, few to several flowered inflorescence

Synonyms Leptorkis torta (Hook.f.) Kuntze 1891; Stichorkis torta (Hook.f.) Marg., Szlach. & Kulak 2008

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; *Icones 21 Hooker 1890 drawing fide;

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