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Orchid Species: Liparis microblepharon
(This name is currently accepted by Kew.)
Liparis microblepharon is an orchid species identified by Schltr. in 1911.
ORIGIN: Found in New Guinea on trees in montane forests at elevations around 500 meters.
DESCRIPTION: Miniature to small sized, hot to warm growing epiphyte with a very short rhizome giving rise to very close set, short, slightly compressed, ancipitous, oblong pseudobulbs carrying a single, erect to suberect, elliptic-ligulate, acute to apiculate, glabrous, narrowing below into the base leaves that blooms in the fall on an erect, thin, glabrous, longer than the leaves in length, peduncle slightly compressed, thin, glabrous, to 2.4 [6 cm] long, laxly 10 to 30 flowered inflorescence with erect-patent, lanceolate, acuminate, shorter than the ovary floral bracts.
-- information provided by Jay Pfahl, author of the
Internet Orchid Species Encyclopedia (IOSPE).
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