Paphiopedilum tranlienianum O.Gruss & H.Perner 1998 SUBGENUS Paphiopedilum SECTION Paphiopedilum Karasawa & Saito 1982

Photo by Patricia Harding

Common Name Tran's Paphiopedilum [Vietnamese Expoter of Species - current] - In China Tian Hua Dou Lan

Flower Size 2 1/5" to 2 2/5" [5.5 to 6 cm]

Found only in southeastern Yunnan province of China and northern Vietnam in primary, broad leaf, evergreen forests on highly eroded, limestone cliffs and mountains in narrow crevasses at elevations of 40 to 750 meters in an area with partial shade, a cool dry winter and a wet warm summerA small sized, warm growing lithophyte with 3 to 6 distichous, clear green, linear-ligulate, obtuse, unequally bilobulate, or minutely tridentate apically and sharply keeled beneath leaves that blooms in the fall in nature on a suberect to arcuate, 4" to 6 3/4" [10 to 18 cm] long, bright green, pubescent, single flowered inflorescence with a conduplicate, ovate, acute or obtuse, green spotted maroon, pubescent, half as long as the ovary floral bract.

Synonyms Paphiopedilum caobanggense Tich 1999; Paphiopedilum tranlienianum f. alboviride O.Gruss 2005

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Oasis Vol 1 No 2 2000 photo; Rudolf Schlechter Die Orchideen Band 1C lieferung 40 pg 2492 - 2564 Brieger 2000 ; Australian Orchid Review Vol 68 No 5 2003 photo; AOS Bulletin Vol 73 No 4 2004 photo fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 74 No 9 2005 photo fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 76 No 3 2007 photo fide; Orchids of Vietnam, Illustrated survey, part 1 Averyanov 2008; Flora of China Vol 25 Zhengyi, Raven & Deyuan 2009; Mille et Une Mini Orchideees Roguenant 2009 photo fide; Orchid Digest Vol 74 #3 2010 drawing/photo fide; Orchid Digest Vol 74 #3 2010 as P tranlienianum fma alboviride photo/drawing fide; Flora of China Vol 25 Illustrations Zhengyi, Raven & Deyuan 2010 drawing fide; Orchid Digest Vol 76 #4 2012 photo fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 85 #2 2016 photo fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 86 # 1 2017 photo fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 87 #1 2018 photo fide; Orchid Digest Vol 88 #4 2019 photo fide; Atlas of Native Orchids of China Vol 1 Jin Xiaohua, Li Jianwu and Ye Deping 2019 photo fide

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