Family: Orchidaceae
Plant: A lithophytic or rarely terrestrial orchid forming dense clumps on rocks.
Flowers: 5 to 32 in a raceme up to 30cm long, each flower being pale yellowish-green. The labellum has an orange callus.
Flowering: April-June.
Fruit: A yellowish-green capsule turning brown with age.
Leaves: Linear to lanceolate, light green, soft, partly folded and 10-30cm long rising from a fleshy pseudobulb – usually 2 or 3 per shoot (rarely 1 or 4).
Habitat: On rocks in deep gullies in rainforest and wet sclerophyll forest
Features: Yellowish-green flowers in racemes up to 30cm long. 2 or 3 long light-green leaves rising from a pseudobulb.
Name:
Liparis From Greek = oily, greasy (referring to the leaves of some of the species)
reflexa From Latin = bent-backwards (referring to its labellum)
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Type |
Orchid |
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Flowers |
Form |
Irregular, Cluster |
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Colour(s) |
Green, Yellow |
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Petal/Sepal No. |
6 |
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Flowering Month |
4, 5, 6 |
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Fruit |
Type |
Capsule |
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Colour |
Yellow, Green |
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Other Features |
- |
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Leaves |
Arrangement |
Basal |
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Type |
Simple |
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Shape |
Linear, Oval, Strap-like |
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Length |
Medium, Long |
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Margins |
Entire |
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Attachment |
Unstalked |
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Other Features |
- |
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Bark |
- |
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Habitat |
Rainforest, Wet sclerophyll forest |
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