Liparis deflexa Hook.f.
In Fl. Brit. India 5: 697 (1890)
-
Leptorkis deflexa (Hook.f.) Kuntze in Revis. Gen. Pl. 2: 671 (1891)
-
Liparis flavoviridis Blatt. & McCann in J. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc. 35: 260 (1931)
-
Liparis prazeri King & Pantl. in J. Asiat. Soc. Bengal, Pt. 2, Nat. Hist. 66: 582 (1897)
Ecology Terrestrial herbs in semievergreen forest growing under dense shade of trees on humus rich soil
Pseudobulb tuberous, about 7-11 mm in diameter.
Stem underground, not more than 2 cm high, sheathed.
Leaves usually 2, often up to 5, flat and spreading on ground, sessile, sheathing at base, 6-16x 2-9 cm, broadly ovate, elliptic, or ovate-lanceolate, acute or abruptly tapered to an acuminate apex, fleshy, plicate, green, about 7-nerved.
Inflorescence Scape 7.5-32 cm long, 0.75-2 mm thick, green, angled, winged.
Bracts 4-6 x1-2 mm, deflexed, lanceolate, sub acuminate, entire, pale green.
Flowers in lax racemes, long-pedicelled, bracteate, green, often somewhat yellow. Pedicel with ovary about 10 mm long, green, erect.
Sepals 9x 3 mm, pale green, acute, 5-nerved, lanceolate ; the dorsal one bent backwards almost along the ovary, with involute margin ; lateral ones straight, slightly incurved at base and apex, lying behind the lip.
Petals 9x1 mm, pale green, lying behind the lip, along with lateral sepals, margins involute narrowly linear, on spreading about 2 mm broad, linear-obspathulate, acute 1·nerved.
Labellum dark green, clawed; claw about 2 mm long, erect, ± parallel to the column, with inflexed edges, the base with 2 conical, shiny, dark green calli nearly touching the column; limb about 7x 7 mm, bent at right angles to the claw; transversely oblong-orbicular or obcordate-orbicular or orbicular-reniform, emarginate at apex with or without a minute apiculum, minutely denticulate on the margin with a narrowly-oblong, shiny, subconcave, nectar-secreting patch extending up to the middle or a little beyond.
Column 4 mm long, pale green, strongly curved forwards at the top, linear-oblong, base much dilated; lateral wings small.
Anther 0.75x0.75 mm, ovate-oblong, pale green. Stigmatic surface deep seated.
Capsules 15x 7 mm long, obovoid, strongly ribbed; pedicels 7-9 mm long.
Flowering and Fruiting: August