Liparis condylobulbon

Liparis condylobulbon is an epiphytic or lithophytic, clump-forming herb with crowded, glossy green, cylinder-shaped pseudobulbs long and wide. Each pseudobulb has two thin, linear to lance-shaped leaves and wide. Between fifteen and thirty five pale green to cream-coloured flowers, long and wide are borne on a stiff flowering stem long. The sepals are long and about wide, the petals a similar length but narrower. The labellum is orange, about long and wide with a notched tip. Flowering occurs between December and August. ==Taxonomy and naming==

Liparis condylobulbon was first formally described in 1862 by Heinrich Gustav Reichenbach who published the description in Hamburger Garten- und Blumenzeitung. ==Distribution and habitat==

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. == References ==