Paphiopedilum gratrixianum Rolfe 1905 SUBGENUS Paphiopedilum SECTION Paphiopedilum Karasawa & Saito 1982

Photo by © Lourens Grobler

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Common Name Gratix's Paphiopedilum [English Orchid Enthusiast 1900's] - In China Ge Li Dou Lan

Flower Size 3 1/4" [8 cm]

Found in southeastern Yunnan province of China, southeastern Laos and northern Vietnam in primary wet, broadleafed, evergreen highland cloud forests at 900 to 1220 meters with no dry period and a lot of constant humidity in leaf litter caught in silicate soil pockets or on rhyolite or on granite cliff walls as a small sized, warm to cool growing, clump forming, litho-terrestrial in deep shade with distichous, solid green, suberect, linear to lanceolate, oblong, acute or minutely tridentate apice, purple spotted below towards the base leaves that blooms in the fall and early winter on a erect, to 10" [25 cm] long, green with purple pubescence, single flowered inflorescence with a narrowly oblong-lanceolate to obovate, acute to obtuse, shorter than the ovary floral bract carrying a long-lasting flower.

Synonyms Cordula gratrixiana Rolfe 1912; Cypripedium gratrixianum B.S.Williams 1897; Cypripedium gratrixianum Masters 1905; Paphiopedilum gratrixianum var. daoense Aver. 2002; Paphiopedilum villosum var gratixianum [Masters] Braem 1988; Paphiopedilum gratrixianum var. cangyuanense Z.J.Liu & L.J.Chen 2010

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Orchid Digest Vol 44 No 6 1980 photo fide; Orchid Digest Vol 51 No 2 1987 photo fide; Orchid Digest Vol 55 No 3 1991 photo fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 63 No 11 1994 photo fide; Identification of the Orchids [Orchidaceae Juss.] Vietnam Averyanov 1994 drawing fide; Orchid Digest Vol 59 No 3 1995 photo fide; The Genus Paphiopedilum Vol 1 & 2 Braem 1999; Rudolf Schlechter Die Orchideen Band 1C lieferung 40 pg 2492 - 2564 Brieger 2000; AOS Bulletin Vol 76 No 3 2007 as P gratixianum var daoense photo fide; Orchids of Vietnam, Illustrated survey, part 1 Averyanov 2008; Flora of China Vol 25 Zhengyi, Raven & Deyuan 2009; Flora of China Vol 25 Illustrations Zhengyi, Raven & Deyuan 2010 drawing fide; The Wild Orchids in Yunnan Xu Xiang Ye & Liu 2010 photos fide; Orchid Digest Vol 76 #4 2012 photo fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 82 #11 2013 photo fide; Orchid Digest Vol 79 #3 2015 photo fide; Orchid Digest Vol 80 #2 2016 as P gratixianum var christensonianum photo fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 85 #6 2015 photo fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 85 #3 2016 photo good; AOS Bulletin Vol 87 #10 2018 photo fide; Atlas of Native Orchids of China Vol 1 Jin Xiaohua, Li Jianwu and Ye Deping 2019 photo fide

Paphiopedilum gratrixianum var. daoense Aver. 2002

Photo by © Holger Perner

Comparison Photo - The variety daoense is on the left and normal variety of P gratixianum is on the right.

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; AOS Bulletin Vol 76 No 3 2007 as P gratixianum var daoense photo fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 82 #11 2013 photo fide; Orchid Digest Vol 83 #1 2019 as P daoense photo fide;

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