Liparis exilis J.J.Sm. 1908 SUBGENUS Menoneuron SECTION Genychilus

TYPE Drawing by © J J Smith

Common Name The Grass-Like Leaves Liparis

Flower Size .24" [6 mm]

Found in New Guinea in lower montane forests at elevations around 900 meters as a small sized, warm growing terrestrial with a creeping, short rhizome giving rise to close set, erect, thin, stem-lie, hardly basally swollen pseudobulbs carrying a single, apical, erect, narrowly lanceolate, basally narrowed, gradually acuminate, three main nerve prominent beneath leaf thata blooms in the winter on an erect, terminal, arisijg through a spathe, peduncl;e thin, 2 to 3.2" [5 to 8.5 cm] long, rachis angular, 2 to 4.4" [5 to 11 cm] long, laxly 10 to 20 flowered inflorescence with lanceolate-triangular, acute, concave floral bracts.

Synonyms Cestichis exilis (J.J.Sm.) M.A.Clem. & D.L.Jones 2005

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; * Bull. Dép. Agric. Indes Néerl. 19: 27 J J Smith 1908 Drawing fide;

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