Liparis pullei J.J.Sm. 1914 SUBGENUS Menoneuron SECTION Platychilus

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Common Name Pulle's Liparis [Collector of the type lae 1800 - ealrier 1900's]

Flower Size

Found in western New Guinea in lowland forests at elevations around 100 to 750 meters as a small to medium sized, hot to warm growing epiphyte or terrestrial with a short rhizome giving rise to close set, elongated, linear, basally slightly dilated, in cross-section narrowly rhombic, ribbed pseudobulbs enveloped basally by distichous, conduplicate, acutely acuminate, keeled sheaths and carrying a single, erect, lanceolate, at the apex gradually pointed, mid-rib grooved above, keeled below, on either side with two dorsally prominent nerves, subcoriaceous, gradually long narrowed, conduplicate base leaf that blooms in the late winter, spring and summer on a shorter than the leaf, arising through a conduplicate, sharply acute, keeled spathe, peduncle ribbed, 4 to 5.2" [10 to 13 cm] or more long, rachis ribbed, 1.4 to 3" [3.5 to 7.5 cm] or more long, laxly several-flowered inflorescence with patent, appressed to the pedicel, linear-triangular, acute, concave, the upper ones much smaller floral bracts.

Synonyms Cestichis pullei (J.J.Sm.) M.A.Clem. & D.L.Jones 2005; Stichorkis pullei (J.J.Sm.) Marg., Szlach. & Kulak 2008

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; *Bull. Jard. Bot. Buitenzorg, sér. 2, 13:56 J J Smith 1914

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