Liparis trifoliata J.J.Wood & Ormerod 2008 SECTION Cestichis

Drawing by Linda Gurr

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Common Name The Three Leaved Liparis

Flower Size .4" [1 cm] long

Found in Sabah Borneo in lower montane forests at elevations around 1500 meters as a medium sized, cool growing epiphyte with cylindrical pseuodobulbs with 2 ovate, acute, membranneous, conduplicate sheathing cataphyls carrying 3, oblonceoalte to oblong-ligulate, obtuse to acute, coriaceous, with many whitish epidermal concretions leaves that blooms in the later summer on a terminal, peduncle and rachis enveloped by numerous whitish epidermal concretions, peduncle 4 to 8" [10 to 20 cm] long, provided with trangular-ovate, acuminate bracts, rachis 7.6 to 8.8" [19 to 22 cm] long, laxly many flowered inflorescence with subulate, acuminate, shorter to just as long as the ovary floral bracts and carrying red to pinkish flower with a yellow column.

Similar to L latifolia but is distinguished by the pseudobulb carrying 3 leaves. It is similar to the 2 leaved L bicolor which also has a smaller lip with the arms of the lip callus form an inverted "U" shaped area. It is similat to other trifoliate species from Malesia including L becarrii and L crenulata from Sumatra and Java and L spectabilis from New Guinea but differs from all three in the lip shapes and callus structures. Allied bifoliate taxa include the Philippine L bontocensis, L grossa and L palawanensis.

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References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; *Malesian Orchid J. 2: 117 J J Wood & Ormerod 2008 drawing fide; The Orchids of Mount Kinabalu Vol 1 Wood, Beaman, Lamb, Chu Lun and Beaman 2011 drawing fide; The Orchids of Mount Kinabalu Vol 2 Wood, Beaman, Lamb, Chu Lun and Beaman 2011

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