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Orchid Species: Paphiopedilum helenae
(This name is currently accepted by Kew.)
Paphiopedilum helenae is an orchid species identified by Aver. in 1996.
ORIGIN: Found recently in north Vietnam and southern China in primary, mixed and coniferous, semi-deciduous, open broad leafed dry forest on steep highly eroded limestone cliff faces facing north at elevations of 100 to 900 meters.
DESCRIPTION: A small [smallest of the genus] sized, hot to warm growing lithophytic species with 3 to 5 distichous, coriaceous-fleshy to rigid, succulent, oblanceolate to oblong-elliptic, obtuse and tridenticulate apically, green with a few purple spots beneath near the base leaves that blooms in the late summer and fall on an suberect to slightly hanging, 1 3/5 to 2 3/4 [4 to 7 cm] long, shortly and densely black-purple, pubescent inflorescence with a single flower arising from a conduplicate, ovate to elliptic bract.
FLOWER SIZE: 2 to 2 1/2 inches [5 to 6 cm]
-- information provided by Jay Pfahl, author of the
Internet Orchid Species Encyclopedia (IOSPE).
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