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Liparis truncata ("Kumoijigabachi")

Japanese name: クモイジガバチ (雲居似我蜂)
Scientific name: Liparis truncata

[Overview]
A perennial 3–10 cm tall, growing as an epiphyte among moss on trees such as beech, Mongolian oak and Japanese horse chestnut in cool-temperate deciduous broadleaf forests.
It has ovate pseudobulbs and bears 2 simple leaves alternately.
The leaves are ovate with an abruptly pointed tip, and the surface has longitudinal wrinkles and a gloss.
A raceme bears 3–5 flowers, pale green to pale dark purple.
The lateral sepals are broadly linear and extend sideways, and the lateral petals hang down.
The lip is inversely triangular and strongly recurved, with dark purplish brown parallel veins in the center.
It resembles Fugaku-suzumushisou, but can be distinguished by the parallel veins on the lip.

Details

Names
Japanese: クモイジガバチ(雲居似我蜂)
Life form
Perennial
Habit
Epiphytic
Similar plants
Flowering season
June, July, August
Distribution or origin
Japan (Honshu)
Height
30–100 mm
Leaf shape
Simple leaf (unlobed)
Leaf arrangement
Alternate
Leaf margin
Entire
Inflorescence
Raceme
Number of petals
6
Flower color
Green, Purple
Leaf color
Green
Designated plants
CR: Critically Endangered (Class IA), Endemic to Japan

Translated from our Japanese encyclopedia. If anything differs, the Japanese page is correct.

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