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{{Treatment/ID
|accepted_name=Liparis nervosa
|accepted_authority=(Thunberg ex Murray) Lindley
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Gen. Sp. Orchid. Pl.,
|place=26. 1830
|year=1830
}}
|common_names=Tall liparis
|basionyms={{Treatment/ID/Basionym
|name=Ophrys nervosa
|authority=Thunberg ex Murray
|rank=species
|publication_title=Syst. Veg. ed.
|publication_place=14, 814. 1784
}}
|synonyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Leptorchis elata
|authority=(Lindley) Kuntze
|rank=species
}} {{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Liparis bituberculata
|authority=Reichenbach f.
|rank=species
}} {{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Liparis elata
|authority=Lindley
|rank=species
}} {{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Liparis elata var. latifolia
|authority=Ridley
|rank=variety
}} {{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Sturmia bituberculata
|authority=
|rank=species
}}
|hierarchy=Orchidaceae;Orchidaceae subfam. Epidendroideae;Orchidaceae tribe Malaxideae;Liparis;Liparis nervosa
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Orchidaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>subfamily</small>[[Orchidaceae subfam. Epidendroideae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>tribe</small>[[Orchidaceae tribe Malaxideae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Liparis]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Liparis nervosa]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 26
|mention_page=
|treatment_page=page 626
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Plants </b>12–60 cm. <b>Pseudobulbs</b> conic, slightly compressed, 5–7 × 2–3 cm, sheathed by bracts and persistent leaf bases, previous year’s pseudobulb usually present, connected by short rhizome, producing numerous fibrous roots. <b>Stems</b> pale green or green, sometimes suffused with purple-maroon, angled, prominently winged distally. <b>Leaves</b> 3–7, sheathing stem and pseudobulb, reduced distally to minute bracts; blade green, glossy, plicate, ovate or elliptic to oblong-lanceolate, 6–30 × 5.5–12 cm, membranaceous, apex broadly rounded to abruptly acuminate. <b>Inflorescences</b> 3–26 cm; floral bracts subulate to triangular-lanceolate, 6–12 × 3 mm, apex acuminate; pedicels stout, 3–5 mm. <b>Flowers</b> 10–40, greenish purple; dorsal sepal oblong-elliptic to linear-oblong, 5–8 × 1.8–4 mm, margins strongly revolute, apex broadly rounded to obtuse; lateral sepals falcate, ovate-oblong to elliptic, 4–7 × 2–3.5 mm, apex obtuse to subacute; petals falcate, linear-oblanceolate to narrowly spatulate, nearly tubular, 5–7.5 × 1–2 mm, margins strongly revolute; lip strongly arcuate-recurved, obcordate to broadly cuneate or oblong-flabellate, base obsoletely auriculate, apex emarginate, sometimes mucronate; callus with 2 fleshy tubercles on basal portion, maroon-purple, 4–5.5 ×3.5–5.3 mm; column stout, 3.5–5 × 1–1.5 mm, winged apically; anthers bright green; pollinia yellow. <b>Capsules</b> obovoid to ellipsoid, 12–15 × 5–6 mm.</span><!--

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|phenology=Flowering Jul–Sep.
|habitat=Cypress swamps on decaying logs and stumps, in rich humus of hammock or in wet muck, also dense hardwood forests
|elevation=0–1500 m
|distribution=Fla.;Mexico;West Indies;Central America;South America;Asia (Formosa;India;Japan;Thailand);tropical Africa;Pacific Islands (Philippines).
|discussion=<p><i>Liparis nervosa</i>, a pantropical orchid, is probably the most widespread orchid in the world. <i>Liparis nervosa</i> has over fifty different published synonyms from tropical areas.</p>
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name=Liparis nervosa
|authority=(Thunberg ex Murray) Lindley
|rank=species
|parent rank=genus
|synonyms=Leptorchis elata;Liparis bituberculata;Liparis elata;Liparis elata var. latifolia;Sturmia bituberculata
|basionyms=Ophrys nervosa
|family=Orchidaceae
|phenology=Flowering Jul–Sep.
|habitat=Cypress swamps on decaying logs and stumps, in rich humus of hammock or in wet muck, also dense hardwood forests
|elevation=0–1500 m
|distribution=Fla.;Mexico;West Indies;Central America;South America;Asia (Formosa;India;Japan;Thailand);tropical Africa;Pacific Islands (Philippines).
|reference=None
|publication title=Gen. Sp. Orchid. Pl.,
|publication year=1830
|special status=
|source xml=https://jpend@bitbucket.org/aafc-mbb/fna-data-curation.git/src/f50eec43f223ca0e34566be0b046453a0960e173/coarse_grained_fna_xml/V26/V26_1281.xml
|subfamily=Orchidaceae subfam. Epidendroideae
|tribe=Orchidaceae tribe Malaxideae
|genus=Liparis
|species=Liparis nervosa
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