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Paphiopedilum aranianum is an orchid species identified by Petchl. in 2009. Culture information and photos for this orchid are commonly detailed under the currently accepted name of Paphiopedilum dianthum.
ORIGIN: Found in southwestern China and northern Vietnam in primary, open semi-deciduous broad leafed evergreen, mossy, wet forests on highly eroded crystalline limestone cliffs in dappled shade at elevations of 500 to 1450 meters.
DESCRIPTION: Warm to cool growing lithophyte or rarely as a humus epiphyte beneath mossy trees with a wet spring and summer and a distinct lessening in the winter months with coriaceous, ligulate, obliquely obtuse apically leaves that are dark green above and paler beneath and blooms in the fall on an erect to arching pendant, green inflorescence with several [1 to 5] simultaneously opening flowers.
FLOWER SIZE: 6 inches [15 cm]
-- information provided by Jay Pfahl, author of the
Internet Orchid Species Encyclopedia (IOSPE).
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