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Orchid Species: Paphiopedilum vietnamense
(This name is currently accepted by Kew.)
Paphiopedilum vietnamense is an orchid species identified by O.Gruss & Perner in 1999.
ORIGIN: Found only in northern Vietnam as the most range restricted species in Vietnam with an area of less than 200 square miles.
DESCRIPTION: A warm to cool growing lithophyte or rare terrestrial in seasonally wet, primary, evergreen, broad leafed forests on shady vertical limestone bluffs, cliffs and on tops of mountain ridges of northern and northwestern exposure at elevation of 350 to 550 meters often in mossy clumps or partially shaded rock crevices. This orchid has 3 to 5, distichous, coriaceous-leathery, ovate to oblong-elliptic, obtuse and unequally bilobed apically leaves that below are heavily violet spotted, and strongly keeled, and above with fine white to deep green tesselation. Most typical habitats are narrow shelves below overhanging bluffs and the orchid survives a 4 to 5 month dry period during the cooler winter. The erect, 1 to 2 flowered, 6 to 10 [15-25 cm] long, purple violet or purple brown with dense white or light brown haired inflorescence arising from a broadly ovate, acute, pilose, conduplicate floral bract occurs in the late winter and early spring.
FLOWER SIZE: 4 to 4 3/4 inch [10 to 12 cm]
-- information provided by Jay Pfahl, author of the
Internet Orchid Species Encyclopedia (IOSPE).
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