Liparis grossa

Liparis grossa Rchb.f., Gard. Chron. n.s., 19: 110 (1883).

Liparis grossa Rchb.f., Photo by 蘇清記

its native range is Myanmar, E. & S. Taiwan (incl. Lan Yü) to Philippines.

Latin Name: 

Liparis grossa Rchb.f.

Family: 

Orchidaceae Juss.

Synonym:

Leptorkis grossa (Rchb.f.) Kuntze

Liparis rizalensis Ames

Liparis tateishii Kudô

Stichorkis grossa (Rchb.f.) Marg., Szlach. & Kulak

English Name:

The Compact Liparis.

Chinese name:

Heng Chun Yang Er Suan - 恒春羊耳蒜 .

Description: 

With close set, bottle-shaped, flattened pseudobulbs carrying 2 to 3, loined, leathery, oblong-lanceolate, very obtuse, unequally bilobed leaves that blooms in the fall on a terminal, 30 cm long, many flowered, cylindric, racemose inflorescence with overlapping,oblong-lanceolate, tapering apically bracts.

Distribution:

Myanmar, Philippines, Taiwan.

Ecological:

On trees on broad leaved forest slopes at elevations around 300 to 500 m as a small sized, hot growing epiphyte.

Flowering times:

Bloms in the fall.

Flower size:

9.0 mm.

Cultivation:

TEMPERATURE: warm (20 - 24 °C

WATERING: Pour every 7 days

FERTILIZATION: every 14 days with special orchid fertilizer

PLANT SIZE: mature plant / blooming size (but not flowering at the moment)

Typus:

Reference: 

- theplantlist.org

- https://www.ipni.org/n/640921-1

- http://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:640921-1

-  http://www.orchidspecies.com/denhookerianum.htm.

- https://www.orchideen-wichmann.de/en/liparis-grossa.html

- http://www.orchidspecies.com/lipgrossa.htm. 

- https://andysorchids.com/pictureframe.asp?pic=images/Species/6946med.jpg&PicId=6946&PicNam=Dendrobium%20hookerianum

- http://www.efloras.org/florataxon.aspx?flora_id=2&taxon_id=242413571