Botanical name: Liparis sanamalabarica    Family: Orchidaceae (Orchid family)

Malabar Liparis is a tree-dwelling or occasionally rock-dwelling herb, up to 18 cm tall; stem purple. Pseudobulbs are ovoid, ridged, 1-1.5 cm long x 0.8-1.2 cm broad. Roots are slender, up to 2 cm long. Leaves are usually 1, rarely 2, ovate-elliptic, 6-12 x 3-5 cm, pleated, pointed, glossy, hairless, with entire, wavy margins and 9 veins; leaf-stalks up to 1 cm long. Flowers are borne at branch-ends, in racemes, 6-9 cm long, bearing 10-15 creamy yellow flowers. Floral bracts are linear-lanceshaped, leafy, 9-14 x 2-4 mm, pointed, green and hairless. Dorsal sepal linear-lanceshaped, strongly reflexed, 9-11 x 2 mm, yellowish, 3-veined; lateral sepals lanceshaped, 7-8 x 3 mm, spreading forwards, yellowish, 3-5-veined. Petals are linear, strongly curled, spreading and deflexed, 8 x 1 mm, yellow, 1-veined. Lip is rhomboid, 1.2 x 0.8-1 cm, creamy yellow, with sawtoothed margins, wavy tip and 2 basal calli. Column is strongly incurved, 7-8 mm long, winged at tip. Malabar Liparis is found in Kerala and Karnataka. Flowering: August-October.

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