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Orchid Species: Cypripedium hirsutissimum

Kew currently accepted name is Paphiopedilum hirsutissimum

Cypripedium hirsutissimum is an orchid species identified by Lindl. ex Hook. in 1857. Culture information and photos for this orchid are commonly detailed under the currently accepted name of Paphiopedilum hirsutissimum.

Genus

Cypripedium (Cyp.)

Grex

hirsutissimum

Parents

Species

Author

Lindl. ex Hook.

Year

1857

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ORIGIN: Found in northeastern India and Myanmar [the other varieties below are found in northern Thailand, Laos and Vietnam as well as southwestern China] at altitudes of 700 to 1800 meters in leaf litter pockets in forks or at the base of trees or on steep limestone cliff faces in narrow crevasses.

DESCRIPTION: Medium-sized, warm to cool growing terrestrial or lithophytic species that has 5 to 7, distichous, linear-oblong to linear-ligulate, obtuse at the obliquely bilobed apex, clear green, spotted purple beneath leaves that blooms in the spring with a longlasting, 12 [30 cm] long, single flowered, densely pubescent inflorescence that is green and has dark purple hairs and an elliptic floral bract that is 1/4 the length of the ovary.

FLOWER SIZE: 4 inches [10 cm] -- information provided by Jay Pfahl, author of the Internet Orchid Species Encyclopedia (IOSPE).

Other Names

	Genus Name	Genus	Grex Name	Year	Author
Add+	Paphiopedilum	Paph	esquirolei
Add+	Paphiopedilum	Paph	hirsutissimum	1892	(Lindl. ex Hook.) Stein
Add+	Cordula	Cordula	esquirolii	1925	(Schltr.) Hu
Add+	Cordula	Cordula	hirsutissima	1912	(Lindl. ex Hook.) Rolfe
Add+	Paphiopedilum	Paph	chiwuanum	1951	Tang & F.T.Wang
Add+	Paphiopedilum	Paph	esquirolii	1919	Schltr.
Add+	Paphiopedilum	Paph	saccopetalum	1998	H.S.Hua

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