Liparis elliptica Wight, Icon. Pl. Ind. Orient.

Ormerod, Paul, Kurzweil, Hubert & Watthana, Santi, 2021, Annotated List of Orchidaceae for Myanmar, Phytotaxa 481 (1), pp. 1-262 : 158-159

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Liparis elliptica Wight, Icon. Pl. Ind. Orient. View in CoL 5 (1): 17, t. 1735, 1851

Homotypic synonyms: Liparis wightii Rchb. f. in Ann. Bot. Syst. (Walpers) 6: 218, 1861, nom. illeg. Leptorkis elliptica (Wight) Kuntze, Revis. Gen . Pl. 2: 671, 1891. Cestichis elliptica (Wight) M.A.Clem. & D.L.Jones, Orchadian 15: 39, 2005. Stichorkis elliptica (Wight) Marg., Szlach. & Kulak, Acta Soc. Bot. Poloniae 77: 38, 2008.

Specimens examined:— KACHIN. Putao District: 915–1220 m, 11 Jan 1931, Kingdon-Ward 9127 ( BM), ident. uncertain; same loc., 915–1220 m, 27 Nov 1931, Kingdon-Ward 10178 ( BM) . SHAN. Kengtung District: Egerod B- 109 ( K), ident. uncertain .

Distribution:— Sri Lanka, India, Nepal and Southeast Asia to the Pacific.

Liparis forrestii Rolfe , Notes Roy. Bot. Gard. Edinburgh 8: 19, 1913. Type:— MYANMAR. Shan State: Yunnan border, 2135 m, Forrest 261 (holotype: E)

Specimen examined:— SHAN. Yunnan border: type .

Distribution:— Endemic.

Notes:— The protologue stated ‘Frontier of Upper Burmah and China (Shan States)’. The locality is in Myanmar, not China ( Li & Li 2003: 379).

Liparis jovispluvii C.S.P.Parish & Rchb. f., Trans. Linn. Soc. London 30: 154, 1874. Type :— MYANMAR. Mon State : Mawlamyine District, Parish 323 (holotype: K)

Homotypic synonym: Leptorkis jovispluvii (C.S.P.Parish & Rchb.f.) Kuntze, Revis. Gen . Pl. 2: 671, 1891.

Specimens examined:— CHIN. Mindat District : 1450 m, 11 Jul 1956, Kingdon-Ward 22466 ( BM) ; same loc., 1220– 1525 m, 22 Jul 1956, Kingdon-Ward 22517 p.p. ( BM) ; same loc., 915 m, 25 Jul 2006, Ling Shein Man 052053 ( MBK) ; same loc., 1150 m, 29 Jul 2008, Yasuda 053609 ( MBK) ; same loc., 30 Jul 2008, Fujikawa et al. 053029 ( MBK) ; same loc., 1150 m, 9 Aug 2008, Yasuda 060082 ( MBK) ; same loc., 1070 m, 6 Jul 2013, Ling Shein Mang 093005 ( MBK) . BORDER AREA CHIN – MAGWAY ( Mindat – Gangaw districts). 9 Aug 2008, Yasuda 060061 ( MBK) . MON. Mawlamyine District : type; same loc., Lobb s.n. ( K) ; same loc., Parish 29 ( K) . TANINTHARYI. Dawei District : 670 m, Aug 1961, Keenan et al. 885 ( E, K, RAF) .