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Liparis condylobulbon
Tapered sphinx orchid is a small epiphytic or lithophytic orchid from wet tropical rainforest, growing on trees and rocks with crowded cylindrical pseudobulbs. Key to growing it is bright, humid, steady conditions with a fast-draining, airy root environment.
Liparis condylobulbon, commonly known as tapered sphinx orchid or 细茎羊耳蒜 (xi jing yang er suan) is a plant in the orchid family. It is an epiphytic or lithophytic orchid with crowded, glossy green, cylinder-shaped pseudobulbs, each with two linear to lance-shaped leaves and between fifteen and thirty five pale green to cream-coloured flowers with an orange labellum. This orchid usually grows on trees and rocks in rainforest from Taiwan and Indochina to the south-west Pacific.
Tapered sphinx orchid grows on trees and rocks in rainforest. It is found in Taiwan, Myanmar, Thailand, Vietnam, Borneo, Java, the Lesser Sunda Islands, the Maluku Islands, the Philippines, Sulawesi, Sumatra, New Guinea, the Solomon Islands, Queensland, Australia, Fiji, New Caledonia, Samoa, Vanuatu, the Santa Cruz Islands and the Wallis and Futuna Islands. In Australia, it occurs on the Iron and McIlwraith Ranges.
Twisted sphinx orchid · Liparis bautingensis · Yellow sphinx orchid · Fairy sphinx orchid · Liparis crenulata · Liparis deistelii · Liparis elegans · Liparis fissipetala · Slender sphinx orchid · Liparis goodyeroides · Liparis grossa · Common sphinx orchid
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Liparis condylobulbon by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts and the care summary drawn from them are shared under the same licence.
The care summary was written by AI (Claude, Anthropic) from the sources on this page, with general growing knowledge where they are silent. Check before relying on it.
Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.
