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Paphiopedilum singchii is an orchid species identified by Z.J.Liu & J.Y.Zhang in 2000. Culture information and photos for this orchid are commonly detailed under the currently accepted name of Paphiopedilum hangianum.
ORIGIN: A recently discovered species [1999] that occurs around the China and northern Vietnamese borders in a 20 square mile range at 450 to 750 meters in elevation.
DESCRIPTION: Rare, medium sized, hot to warm growing lithophyte in broad leafed, evergreen, closed forests on steep, shady, highly eroded limestone cliffs with the roots running along horizontal fissures of slatey stratified limestone with a cold dry winter and a wet warm summer with 4 to 7 distichous, coriaceous, ligulate, obtuse or subacute, glossy green above, paler green below, sharply keeled beneath leaves that blooms in the spring on a single flowered, erect, 2 1/2 to 4 3/4 [6 to 12 cm] long, bright green, shortly white-pilose, terminal inflorescence with an ovate, obtuse, conduplicate, green, white-pubescent bract and carrying a slightly sweet smelling, large flower.
FLOWER SIZE: 3 1/2 to 4 3/4 inch [9 to 12 cm]
-- information provided by Jay Pfahl, author of the
Internet Orchid Species Encyclopedia (IOSPE).
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