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Orchid Species: Paphiopedilum lowii

(This name is currently accepted by Kew.)

Paphiopedilum lowii is an orchid species identified by (Lindl.) Stein in 1892.
Genus
Paphiopedilum (Paph.)
Grex
lowii
(name currently accepted by Kew)
Parents
Species
Author
(Lindl.) Stein
Year
1892
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ORIGIN: Occurs in Malaya, Sumatra, Java, Sulawesi and Borneo within lowland forests on humus-filled hollows of limestone rocks and boulders in leaf detritus, terrestrial in grasslands with scrub or rarely lithophytic species at altitudes of 200 to 1700 meters.

DESCRIPTION: This medium sized, hot to cool growing, multiflowered lithophyte has 4 to 6, linear to narrowly elliptic, fleshy, clear dark green leaves that blooms in the spring and summer on a terminal, erect to arching, 25 to 40 [62 to 100 cm] long, nodding, green mottled purple, pubescent inflorescence with elliptic, yellow marked with purple, pubescent floral bracts that are 1/3 the length of the ovaries carrying 2 to 7 successive opening flowers.

FLOWER SIZE: 3 to 5 3/4 inch [7.5 to 14 cm] -- information provided by Jay Pfahl, author of the Internet Orchid Species Encyclopedia (IOSPE).
Other Names
Genus Name Genus Grex Name Year Author
Add+ Cypripedium Cyp lowii 1847 Lindl.
Add+ Cypripedium Cyp cruciforme 1854 Zoll. & Moritzi in W.H.De Vriese
Add+ Cordula Cordula lowii 1912 (Lindl.) Rolfe
Add+ Paphiopedilum Paph lowii h.f. semialbum
Add+ Paphiopedilum Paph lynniae 1996 Garay
Most awarded/recent cultivars: Paph. lowii 'Anja' (10 awards from 2010 to 2015) Paph. lowii 'Fredensborg' (4 awards from 2010 to 2015) Paph. lowii 'Baronja' (3 awards from 2014 to 2018) Paph. lowii 'Beverley' (3 awards in 1990) Paph. lowii 'Aileen Garrison' (2 awards in 2019) Paph. lowii var. lynniae 'Anja' (2 awards from 2013 to 2015) Paph. lowii 'Uncle Frank' (2 awards in 2012) Paph. lowii 'Deggendorf' (2 awards from 2010 to 2012) Paph. lowii 'Krull-Smith' (2 awards from 2001 to 2009) Paph. lowii 'Frank's A-doribil Gift' (2 awards from 2007 to 2009) Paph. lowii 'Uschi' (2 awards in 2008) Paph. lowii 'Dragonfly' (2 awards from 1980 to 2008) Paph. lowii 'Jamboree Violet' (2 awards in 2007) Paph. lowii 'Mustafa' (2 awards in 1995) Paph. lowii 'Jamboree Gem' (2 awards in 1992) Paph. lowii 'Flyer' (2 awards from 1987 to 1990) Paph. lowii 'Exotic Dancer' (2 awards from 1988 to 1989) Paph. lowii 'Xlnt' (2 awards from 1975 to 1976) Paph. lowii 'Cleveland's' (2019) Paph. lowii 'Karen' (2018)
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