Luisia cordatilabia Ames & Quisumb. 1934 Photo cortesy of Joji Castaneda-Lapuz

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Common Name The Heart-Shaped Lip Luisia

Flower Size 3/4" [2 cm]

Found only in Luzon, the Philippines at elevations around 1200 meters as a large sized, hot to warm growing monopodial epiphyte with unbranched stems carrying dark green, fleshy, terete, basally clasping leaves and blooms on an, opposite the leaves, short to .8" [2 cm] long, few to many [to 10] flowered inflorescence arising from the axils of the leaves with rigid, concave, triangular bracts and has fleshy, odorless flowers.

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References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Orchidiana Philipiniana Vol 1 Valmayor 1984; The Orchids of the Philippines Cootes 2001 photo fide; Flora Malesiana Orchids of the Philippines Vol I Agoo, Shuiteman and de Vogel 2003;

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