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Orchid Species: Cypripedium irapeanum
(This name is currently accepted by Kew.)
Cypripedium irapeanum is an orchid species identified by Lex. in P.de La Llave & J.M.de Lexarza in 1825.
ORIGIN: This spectacular, large sized, cool to cold growing terrestrial hails from central Mexico south to Guatemala and Honduras on rocky brushy slopes in mixed pine and oak forests at elevations of 1000 to 3200 meters.
DESCRIPTION: This spectacular, large sized, cool to cold growing terrestrial hails from central Mexico south to Guatemala and Honduras on rocky brushy slopes in mixed pine and oak forests at elevations of 1000 to 3200 meters with a pubescent stem carrying ovate-lanceolate, undulate, rounded to the subsessile clasping base, bright green leaves with the upper ones merging into ovate, leaf bearing bracts that blooms in the summer and early fall with 1 to 8 successive flowers on an erect, slender, terminal, 4 [10cm] long, racemose inflorescence.
FLOWER SIZE: 4 3/4 inches [12 cm]
-- information provided by Jay Pfahl, author of the
Internet Orchid Species Encyclopedia (IOSPE).
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