Liparis udaii S. Misra 2009

TYPE Drawing by © Sarat Misra

Part shade Warm LATE Winter

Common Name Udai's Liparis

Flower Size .12" [3 mm]

Found in Odisha India in open deciduous forests at elevations around 800 meters as a small sized, warm growing terrestrial with narrowly-ovoid compressed corms giving rise to 2, erect alternate, lower one smaller, elliptic-lanceolate, acute, basally narrowing in to the sheathed, petiolate base leaves that blooms in the late summer on a terminal, erect, 3.8 to 5.12" [9.5 to 12.8 cm] long, peduncle very slender, 2.88" [7.2 cm] long, successively 1 to 24 to 7 flowered inflorescence.

Similar to L odorata but L udaii differs in being a much shorter plant, a shorter very slender inflorescence carrying a few very small flowers and the lip is quadrate-suborbicular with 2 auricles at the base.

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References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI Orchids of Odisha Misra 2014 drawing fide

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