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{{Short description|Genus of orchids}}
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| image = Ipsea speciosa Fitch.jpg
| image_caption = ''Ipsea speciosa''<br>1868 illustration<ref>Walter Hood Fitch (1817-1892) del. et lith. Description by Joseph Dalton Hooker (1817—1911) - "Curtis's Botanical Magazine" vol. 94 (ser. 3 nr. 24) tab. 5701</ref>
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| taxon = Ipsea
| authority = [[Lindl.]]
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'''''Ipsea''''' is a [[genus]] of the Orchid [[family (biology)|family]] ([[Orchidaceae]]), with three species that are found in [[India]], [[Sri Lanka]] and [[Thailand]].<ref name="WCSP">[http://apps.kew.org/wcsp/namedetail.do?name_id=102636 Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families]</ref>
Three species are recognized:<ref name="WCSP"/>
*''[[Ipsea malabarica]]'' <small>(Rchb.f.) Hook.f.</small> - southern India
*''[[Ipsea speciosa]]'' <small>Lindl.</small> - southern India, Sri Lanka
*''[[Ipsea thailandica]]'' <small>Seidenf.</small> - Thailand
The genus was erected by [[John Lindley]] in 1831 with the type species ''I. speciosa'' which was discovered in Nuwara Eliya, Sri Lanka in 1829 by James Macrae.
A similar species was found by [[Thomas C. Jerdon|Jerdon]] and was doubtfully considered as a new species by [[Robert Wight]]. This was later described as ''Ipsea malabarica'', restricted to Silent Valley in northern Kerala. This endangered species with a very narrow distribution range grows on steep mountain slopes in moist rocky and sunny areas in association with ''Tripogon bromoides'',
''T. ananthaswamianus'', ''Eulalia'' sp., ''Fimbristylis'' sp., ''Utricularia coerulea'', ''Drosera burmanni'', ''Eriocaulon truncatum'' and other such plants. They flower from October to December.<ref>{{cite journal|title=A Synopsis of Ipsea (Orchidaceae)
| author1=Kumar, C. Sathish Kumar |author2=Manilal, K.S.| journal=Kew Bulletin |volume=42| issue=4| year=1987| pages=937–943| doi=10.2307/4109942 | jstor=4109942| bibcode=1987KewBu..42..937K }}</ref>
== References ==
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* {{Wikispecies-inline|Ipsea|''Ipsea''}}
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[[Category:Collabieae genera]]
[[Category:Orchids of India]]
[[Category:Orchids of Sri Lanka]]
[[Category:Orchids of Thailand]]