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Orchid Species: Paphiopedilum chiwuanum

Kew currently accepted name is Paphiopedilum hirsutissimum

Paphiopedilum chiwuanum is an orchid species identified by Tang & F.T.Wang in 1951. Culture information and photos for this orchid are commonly detailed under the currently accepted name of Paphiopedilum hirsutissimum.

Genus

Paphiopedilum (Paph.)

Grex

chiwuanum

Parents

Species

Author

Tang & F.T.Wang

Year

1951

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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	hirsutissimum	1892	(Lindl. ex Hook.) Stein
Add+	Paphiopedilum	Paph	esquirolei
Add+	Paphiopedilum	Paph	esquirolii	1919	Schltr.
Add+	Paphiopedilum	Paph	saccopetalum	1998	H.S.Hua
Add+	Cypripedium	Cyp	hirsutissimum	1857	Lindl. ex Hook.
Add+	Cordula	Cordula	esquirolii	1925	(Schltr.) Hu
Add+	Cordula	Cordula	hirsutissima	1912	(Lindl. ex Hook.) Rolfe

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