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Orchid Species: Psychopsis papilio

(This name is currently accepted by Kew.)

Psychopsis papilio is an orchid species identified by (Lindl.) H.G.Jones in 1975.
Genus
Psychopsis (Pyp.)
Grex
papilio
(name currently accepted by Kew)
Parents
Species
Author
(Lindl.) H.G.Jones
Year
1975
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ORIGIN: Found in Trinidad & Tobago, Panama, French Guiana, Surinam, Venezuela, Colombia and Northern Brazil in lower montane forests.

DESCRIPTION: A medium sized, hot to warm growing, epiphytic species with flat, round, bilaterally compressed, brown, wrinkled pseudobulbs mottled with red blotches and carrying a single, apical, rigidly erect, oblong to oblong-elliptic, obtuse, dark green mottled with purple or red leaf that produces single flowers from a basal, 2 to 5 foot [60 to 120 cm] long, successive opening spike that has triangular bracts and can flower for years if left alone so do not cut them as they can alos produce plantlets. I find that they prefer shady humid well watered conditions, but not to be kept too wet in the winter as the new growths will damp off with fungus.

FLOWER SIZE: 5 to 6 inches [12.5 to 15 cm] -- information provided by Jay Pfahl, author of the Internet Orchid Species Encyclopedia (IOSPE).
Other Names
Genus Name Genus Grex Name Year Author
Add+ Oncidium Onc papilio 1825 Lindl.
Add+ Psychopsis Pyp latourae 1976 (Broadway) H.G.Jones
Add+ Psychopsis Pyp picta 1838 Raf.
Most awarded/recent cultivars: Pyp. papilio 'Orange Butterfly' (2 awards from 2005 to 2013) Pyp. papilio 'Montebello' (2 awards in 2012) Pyp. papilio 'Nicci' (2 awards in 2009) Pyp. papilio 'Summerfield Beauty' (2 awards in 2005) Pyp. papilio 'Orchis' (2 awards in 2000) Pyp. papilio 'Eddie Akimoto' (2 awards in 1992) Pyp. papilio 'Wicta' (2 awards in 1992) Onc. papilio 'Northern Ridge' (2 awards from 1988 to 1989) Onc. papilio 'Crestwood' (2 awards in 1974) Onc. papilio 'Ruben' (2 awards in 1964) Pyp. papilio 'Weiherfalter' (2018) Pyp. papilio 'Jan' (2016) Pyp. papilio 'Mia' (2015) Pyp. papilio 'Strub' (2014) Pyp. papilio 'Little Brook' (2012) Pyp. papilio 'Marina Cianciulli' (2012) Pyp. papilio 'Joyce Did It' (2012) Pyp. papilio 'Orchidphile' (2009) Pyp. papilio h.f. xanthina 'Roman' (2009) Pyp. papilio 'Castle Creek' (2008)
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