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Paphiopedilum caobangense is an orchid species identified by N.T.Tich in 1999. Culture information and photos for this orchid are commonly detailed under the currently accepted name of Paphiopedilum tranlienianum.
ORIGIN: Found only in northern Vietnam in primary, broad leaf, evergreen forests on highly eroded, limestone cliffs and mountains in narrow crevasses at elevations of 40 to 750 meters in an area with partial shade, a cool dry winter and a wet warm summer.
DESCRIPTION: A small sized, warm growing lithophyte found only in northern Vietnam in primary, broad leaf, evergreen forests on highly eroded, limestone cliffs and mountains in narrow crevasses at elevations of 40 to 750 meters in an area with partial shade, a cool dry winter and a wet warm summer with 3 to 6 distichous, clear green, linear-ligulate leaves that are obtuse, unequally bilobulate, or minutely tridentate apically and sharply keeled beneath and blooms in the fall in nature on a suberect to arcuate, 4 to 6 3/4 [10 to 18 cm] long, bright green, pubescent, single flowered inflorescence with a conduplicate, ovate, acute or obtuse, green spotted maroon, pubescent floral bract.
FLOWER SIZE: 2 1/5 to 2 2/5 inches [5.5 to 6 cm]
-- information provided by Jay Pfahl, author of the
Internet Orchid Species Encyclopedia (IOSPE).
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