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Orchid Species: Liparis alpina

Kew currently accepted name is Liparis insectifera

Liparis alpina is an orchid species identified by P.Royen in 1979. Culture information and photos for this orchid are commonly detailed under the currently accepted name of Liparis insectifera.
Genus
Liparis (Lip.)
Grex
alpina
Parents
Species
Author
P.Royen
Year
1979
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ORIGIN: Found in Papua New Guinea on wet open slopes, mossy rock faces, and subalpine grasslands at elevations of 2300 to 3575 meters.

DESCRIPTION: Miniature sized, cold growing terrestrial with pseudobulbs enveloped completely by a few glabrous, leaf like sheaths and carrying a single, apical, patent, coriaceous, glabrous, narrowly elliptic, falcate-plicate, acute leaf that blooms in the later fall and early winter on a terminal, 3.6 to 5 [9 to 12.5 cm] long, 6 to 9 flowered, racemose, glabrous inflorescence enveloped basally by 3 to 4, broadly ovate, acute, conduplicate scales and has ovate, caudate-acuminate, auricled basally, 1-nerved, slightly warty floral bracts and carry mostly non-resupinate flowers.

FLOWER SIZE: 1 inch [2.5 cm] -- information provided by Jay Pfahl, author of the Internet Orchid Species Encyclopedia (IOSPE).
Other Names
Genus Name Genus Grex Name Year Author
Add+ Liparis Lip insectifera 1916 Ridl.
Add+ Cestichis Cestichis alpina 2005 (P.Royen) M.A.Clem. & D.L.Jones
Add+ Cestichis Cestichis insectifera 2005 (Ridl.) M.A.Clem. & D.L.Jones
Add+ Stichorkis Sck insectifera 2008 (Ridl.) Marg., Szlach. & Kulak
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