Liparis elliptica Wight

in Icon. Pl. Ind. Orient. 5:T. 1735 (1852).

Synonymes

Cestichis elliptica (Wight) D.Jones & M.A.Clem. in Orchadian 15(1): 39. (2005)

Cestichis lyonii Ames in Philipp. Journ. Sc., Bot. 1911, 6. 47 (1911).

Cestichis platybolba (Hayata) Kudo in Journ. Soc. Trop. Agr. 2: 147 (1930).

Leptorchis elliptica (Rchb.f.) Kuntze in Rev. Gen. 2: 671 (1891).

Liparis bicornuta Schltr. in Bull. Herb. Boiss. 2. S. 6: 307 (1906).

Liparis concava Schltr. in Rep. Sp. Nov. 9: 283 (1911).

Liparis hookeri Ridl. in Journ. Linn. Soc. 22. 288 (1886).

Liparis lyonii (Ames) Ames in Orch. 5. 81 (1915).

Liparis platybolba Hayata in Ic. Pl. Formosa 4: 30 (1914).

Liparis wightii Rchb.f. in Walp. Ann. 6: 218 (1861).

Stichorkis elliptica in Act. Soc. Bot. Pol. Vol. 77, 1: 35-40 (2008).

Répartition

Bhoutan, Birmanie, Ceylan, Chine, Fidji, Inde, Java, Laos, Nouvelle Calédonie, Népal, Philippines, Sikkim, Taiwan, Thaïlande, Tibet.

Chine : Sichuan, Yunnan.

Inde : Andhra Pradesh, Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Karnataka, Kerala, Manipur, Meghalaya, Tamil Nadu, West Bengal.

Philippines : Benguet, Mountain.

Taiwan : Chia-i, Hua-lien, I-lan, Nan-t'ou, New T'ai-pei, P'ing-tung, T'ai-chung.

Floraison : JF_______OND. Altitude de 200 à 2000 m.

Description sommaire

Plante épiphyte. Taille de 15 à 27 cm. 2 feuilles, de 75-140 × 15-25 mm, oblongues. Bractées lancéolées. Fleurs de 20 à 40, jaunes, vertes. Sépale dorsal oblong, de 3-4 × 1-2 mm. Sépales latéraux oblongs, de 3-4 × 1-2 mm. Pétales filiformes, linéaires, de 3-4 × 0-1 mm. Labelle trilobé, de 0-5 × 2-3 mm.

Bibliographie

Helen L. Valmayor. Orchidiana Philippiniana. Tome 1. Eugenio Lopez Foundation. 1984. Page 233 (sous le nom Liparis lyonii).

N.R. Pearce & P.J. Cribb. The orchids of Bhutan. Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh. 2002. Page 207.

Chen Singchi, Liu Zhongjian, Luo Yibo, Jin Xiaohua, Tsi Zhanhuo. A field guide to the orchids of China. 2009. Page 247. Photo.

Wu Zhengyi & Peter H. Raven & Hong Deyuan. Flora of China. Orchidaceae. Science Press (Beijing). 2009. Page 226.

Zhihui Xu & Hong Jiang & Deping Ye & Ende Liu. The wild orchids in Yunnan. Yunnan Publishing Group Corporation. 2010. Page 154. Photo.

Jim Cootes. Philippine native orchid species. Katha Publishing. 2011. Page 176. Photo.

Dhan Bahadur Gurung. An illustrated guide to the orchids of Bhutan. DSB Publications. 2006. Page 55. Photo.

Wei-Min Lin & Yi-Fu Wang. The wild orchids of Taiwan. KBCC Press. 2014. Page 582. Photo.

The Orchid Review. Tome 123. Royal Horticultural Society. Page 51. Photo.

National Biodiversity Center. A century of new orchid records in Bhutan, 2nd edition. Koeltz. 2021. Page 133. Photo.

André Schuiteman, B. Ramamurthy Kailash & Uttam Babu Shrestha. A checklist of the Orchidaceae of India. Missouri Botanical Garden Press. 2022. Page 131.

Khyanjeet Gogoi. Orchids of Assam, a pictorial guide. Publication Division, Dibrugarh University. 2019. Page 351. Photo.

H.A. Pedersen et al. Flora of Thailand. Volume 12. Part 3. Orchidaceae 3. The forest herbarium, Bangkok. 2022. Page 811. Dessin.

The wild orchids in Tibet. Tongji University Press. 2023. Page 201. Photo.