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Orchid Species: Liparis goodyeroides
(This name is currently accepted by Kew.)
Liparis goodyeroides is an orchid species identified by Schltr. in 1906.
ORIGIN: Found in Guinea, Liberia, Nigeria, Cameroon and the Gulf of Guinea islands in forests, gallery swamp forests and hillsides with rocky soils at elevations around 500 to 1000 meters.
DESCRIPTION: Warm growing lithophyte without pseudobulbs and a creeping, elongating, leafy in the apical part stems carrying 5 to 13, spirally arranged along the stem, broadly to ovate-lanceolate, acute, thin, delicate, spreading, petiolate base leaves that blooms mostly in the spring on an erect, terminal, 1.2 to 1.8 [3 to 4.5 cm] long, rachis narrowly winged, rather dense, subcorymbose, 10 to 15 flowered inflorescence carrying small, green pink to green purple flowers often with a purple lip.
-- information provided by Jay Pfahl, author of the
Internet Orchid Species Encyclopedia (IOSPE).
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