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Orchid Species: Liparis deistelii
(This name is currently accepted by Kew.)
Liparis deistelii is an orchid species identified by Schltr. in 1906.
ORIGIN: Found in the Gulf of Guinea Islands, Cameroon, Gabon, Rwanda, Zaire, Ethiopia, Uganda, Kenya and Tanzania on mossy banks and in moss on tree ferns and trees as well as rocks often near rivers at elevations of 1700 to 2750 meters.
DESCRIPTION: Miniature sized, cool to cold growing epiphyte or lithophyte with a creeping rhizome with 1.6 to 4.8 [4 to 12 cm] between each fleshy, cylindrical pseudobulb carrying 3, light green, thin, ovate to oblong-lanceolate, lightly plicate, crisped margins, acute, gradually narrowing below into the sheathing base leaves that blooms in the later spring on a terminal, erect, to 4.4 [11 cm] long, 2 to 12 flowered inflorescence.
FLOWER SIZE: 0.4 to 0.6 inches [1 to 1.5 cm]
-- information provided by Jay Pfahl, author of the
Internet Orchid Species Encyclopedia (IOSPE).
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