Paphiopedilum dianthum Tang & Wang 1940 SUBGENUS Paphiopedilum SECTION Pardalopetalum
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Common Name The Double Flowered Paphiopedilum - In China Chang Ban Dou Lan
Flower Size 6" [15 cm]
Found in southwestern China and northern Vietnam in primary, open semi-deciduous broadleafed evergreen, mossy, wet forests on highly eroded crystalline limestone cliffs in dappled shade at elevations of 500 to 1450 meters as a small to large sized [in bloom], warm to cool growing lithophyte or rarely as a humus epiphyte beneath mossy trees with a wet spring and summer and a distinct lessening in the winter months with coriaceous, ligulate, obliquely obtuse apically leaves that are dark green above and paler beneath and blooms in the fall on an erect to arching pendant, 12 to 32" [30 to 80 cm] long, green, simultaneously 1 to 5 flowered inflorescence with greenish to yellowish green, broadly ovate, conduplicate, glabrous, shorter than the ovary floral bracts.
Synonyms Paphiopedilum aranianum Petchl. 2009; Paphiopedilum dianthum f. album O.Gruss 2003; Paphiopedilum parishii var dianthum [Tang & Wang] Karasawa & Saito 1982
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Paphiopedilum dianthum f. album O.Gruss 2003 Photo by © Egon Krogsgaard
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