Vasilis Teodoridis:
Orchidaceae | Liparis
19. Liparis nervosa (Thunberg) Lindley; Gen. Sp. Orchid. Pl. 26. 1830.
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Ophrys nervosa Thunberg in Murray; Syst. Veg.; ed. 14; 814. 1784; Bletia bicallosa D. Don; Epidendrum nervosum (Thunberg) Thunberg; Liparis bambusifolia Makino; L. bicallosa (D. Don) Schlechter; Malaxis nervosa (Thunberg) Swartz; Sturmia nervosa (Thunberg) H. G. Reichenbach.
Herbs; terrestrial. Stem cylindric; 2-8(-10) cm; 5-7(-10) mm in diam.; thick; fleshy; with many nodes; usually ± enclosed by sheaths; upper part sometimes naked. Leaves 3-6; petiole sheathlike; 2-3(-5) cm; amplexicaul; long; not articulate; blade ovate to ovate-elliptic; 5-11(-16) x 3-5(-8) cm; membranous or herbaceous; base contracted and decurrent into petiole; margin entire; apex subacuminate. Inflorescence subterminal; 10-20(-25) cm; rachis several to 10-flowered; sometimes with very narrow wing; floral bracts deltoid; 1(-2) mm. Flowers purple; pedicel and ovary 8-16 mm. Dorsal sepal linear or broadly linear; 8-10 x 1.5-2 mm; inconspicuously 3-veined; margin revolute; apex obtuse; lateral sepals narrowly ovate-oblong; slightly oblique; 6-7 x 3-3.5 mm; 3-veined; apex obtuse. Petals reflexed; filiform; 7-8 x ca. 0.5 mm; 1-veined; lip oblong-obovate; 6-6.5 x 4.5-5 mm; base narrowed and with 2 suboblong calli; apex truncate and emarginate. Column 4-5 mm; rather stout; upper part distinctly or indistinctly with narrow wings. Capsule obovate-oblong or narrowly elliptic; ca. 1.5 cm x 6 mm; fruiting pedicel 4-7 mm. Fl. Feb-Jul; fr. Oct. 2n = 36; 40; 42.
Forests; shaded places in grasslands or soil-covered rocks along streamsides; 1000-2100 m. N Fujian; Guangdong; Guangxi; Guizhou; Hubei; S Hunan; Jiangxi; S Sichuan; Taiwan; SE Xizang; Yunnan; S Zhejiang [widespread in Old and New World tropics].