Paphiopedilum dianthum Tang & Wang 1940 SUBGENUS Polyantha SECTION Mystropetalum Photo by © Eric Hunt and His Orchid Website

Another Clone Photo courtesy of Dan and Marla Nikirk.

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Common Name The Double Flowered Paphiopedilum

Flower Size 6" [15 cm]

Found in SW 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 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, green, inflorescence with several [1 to 5] simultaneously opening flowers.

Synonyms Paphiopedilum dianthum f. album O.Gruss 2003; Paphiopedilum parishii var dianthum [Tang & Wang] Karasawa & Saito 1982

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list IPNI ; Orchid DIgest Vol 44 No 4 1980 photo; Orchid Digest Vol 56 No 3 1992 photo; Wild Orchids of China Tsi, Chen Mori 1997; AOS Bulletin Vol 68 No 4 1999 ; The Genus Paphiopedilum Vol 1 & 2 Braem 1999; Lindleyana Vol 15 No 4 2000; Orchids of Vietnam, Illustrated survey, part 1 Averyanov 2008

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