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Orchidaceae - Epidendroideae - Malaxideae - Liparis Rich.

Description:

  • Terrestrial or sometimes low-level epiphytic herbs, with or without pseudobulbs
  • Leaves 2-few, sheathing at base
  • Inflorescences terminal, lax or dense racemes; flowers usually yellowish green or purplish; bracts small
  • Sepals spreading, free or laterals ± connate at base
  • Petals very narrow
  • Lip usually deflexed or recurved above erect base, simple or bilobed, margins entire or dentate, often bituberculate at base
  • Gynostemium usually long and slender, incurved, often winged at apex; anther operculate; pollinia 4
  • Capsule cylindrical to ellipsoid
  • x = 10 (aneuploids, polyploidy)

Nomenclature:

  • Liparis Rich.
    • Richard: 21, 30, 38 (1817) name conserved
    • Rolfe: 8 (1912)
    • Phillips: 240 (1951)
    • Schelpe: 20 (1966)
    • Stewart et al.: 216 (1982)
    • Linder & Kurzweil: 359 (1999)

Distribution & Notes:

  • Global: Species ± 250, cosmopolitan
  • Southern Africa: Species 4, in northern, eastern and southwestern parts

References:

  • LINDER, H.P. & KURZWEIL, H. 1999. Orchids of southern Africa. A.A. Balkema, Rotterdam
  • PHILLIPS, E.P. 1951. The genera of South African flowering plants. Memoirs of the Botanical Survey of South Africa No. 25
  • RICHARD, L.C. 1817. De Orchideis europaeis annotationes. Belin (typ.), Paris
  • ROLFE, R.A. 1912. Order CXXXI. Orchideae. Flora capensis 5,3
  • SCHELPE, E.A. 1966. An introduction to the South African Orchids. Purnell & Sons, Cape Town, Johannesburg
  • STEWART, J., LINDER, H.P., SCHELPE, E.A. & HALL, A.V. 1982. Wild orchids of southern Africa. Macmillan, Johannesburg

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