Liparis misoolensis Ormerod 2011 SUBGENUS Menoneuron SECTION Platychilus

TYPE Drawing by © Paul Ormerod

LATE EARLY

Common Name The Misool Liparis [An area on an island to the west of Papua New Guinea in Raja Ampat Regency]

Flower Size .44" [1.1 cm]

Found in western New Guinea in lowland forests at elevations around 80 meters as a small sized, hot growing epiphyte with a ahort rhizome giving rise to obliquely conical, erect pseudobulbs enveloped basally by thin, papery sheaths and carrying a single articulate for c. .8" [2 cm], blade ligulate-oblanceolate, apex acute to subacuminate, with 3 prominent nerved beneath, subpetiolate, .8" [2 cm] long base leaf that blooms in the late winter and early spring on a terminal, peduncle narrowly winged, 3.28" [8.2 cm] long, sheath at base 1.04" [2.6 cm] long, rachis more than 2.36" [5.9 cm] long, 5.6" [14.1 cm] long (apex missing) overall, laxly 4 to more flowered inflorescence with lanceolate, acute, much smaller than the ovary floral bracts.

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References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; *Orchadian 16: 520 Ormerod 2011 drawing fide

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