Paphiopedilum delenatii Guillaumin 1924 SUBGENUS Parvisepalum Karasawa & Saito 1982 Photo courtesy of Jay Pfahl
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Common Name Delanat's Paphiopedilum [French Orchid Enthusiast 1900's]
Flower Size 4" [8 cm]
A small sized, southern Vietnamese terrestrial and lithophytic species with mottled leaves that grows in broadleaf, evergreen lowland forests or primary highland cloud forests on soils rich in silicates or acidic soils or mossy crevasses on eastern or southern facing granite or gneiss slopes above rivers and streams in partial shade at elevations of 750 to 1500 meters and grows well in hot to warm environments with 5 to 7, narrowly elliptic to oblong elliptic, disitichous, light green and veined and mottled dark green, purple spotted beneath, obtuse and minutely unequally trilobed apically leaves and is a late fall, winter [Most often December] to early spring bloomer with 1 or 2 [rarely 3] apical flowers on an erect, 8 3/4" [22 cm] long, pubescent, reddish inflorescence that requires less watering from January through May and water heavy from June through December , but not kept damp, and fertilizer throughout the year.
Synonyms Cypripedium delenatii [Guillame] Curtis 1933; Paphiopedilum delenatii f. albinum Braem 1998
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list IPNI ; AOS Bulletin Vol 32 No 3 1963 photo as Cypripedium delanati; AOS Bulletin Vol 47 No 9 1978 photo; Orchid Digest Vol 44 No 5 1980 photo; Orchid Digest Vol 48 No 2 1984; AOS Bulletin Vol 55 No 7 1986 photo; Schlechteriana Vol 2 No 2 1991 photo; Orchid DIgest Vol 56 No 1 1992 photo; The Genus Paphiopedilum Vol 1 & 2 Braem 1999; Australian Orchid Review Vol 65 No 6 2000 photo as P delanati f albinum; Australian Orchid Review Vol 70 No 4 2005 as P delanati f album; AOS Bulletin Vol 10 2008 photo; Orchids of Vietnam, Illustrated survey, part 1 Averyanov 2008
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