Liparis remota

Common Name: The Remote Liparis
Scented: no
Light Requirements: partial shade
Temperature Requirements: cool
Blooms: summer
Flower Size: 5mm

Found in Southern Cape, KwaZulu-Natal and Swaziland in South Africa in forests at elevations of 400m to 1400m as a miniature-sized, cool-growing terrestrial, epiphyte or lithophyte with 3cm to 5cm between each erect, swollen, conical to ovoid pseudobulbs carrying 3 elliptic, gradually narrowing below into the narrow sheathing base leaves, that blooms in the summer on a terminal, erect, 10cm to 15cm long, 3 to 8 flowered inflorescence.

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