Liparis verticillata G.A.Romero & Garay 1999 SECTION Ramosae [Ridl.] Pfitzer

TYPE Drawing by B Angell courtesy of Dr Leslie Garay ing

Common Name The Whorled Liparis [refers to the flowers position on the inflorescence]

Flower Size

Found in Bolivar state of Venezuela in mosses and selaginellasat elevations up to 2000 meters as a mini-miniature sized, cool growing terrestrial with a thin rhizome giving rise to distant, minute, enveloped by leaf sheath bases carrying deltoid-ovate, acute, condulicate below into the sessile base leaves that blooms on a terminal, to 2" [5 cm] long, peduncle thin, naked, rachis whorled, few flowered inflorescence with lineaqr-lanceolate, acuminate, somewhat shorter than the ovary floral bracts.

Synonyms

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; *Harvard Papers in Botany Vol 4 # 2 6 Schedulae Orchidum II Garay 1999 Drawing fide;

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