Phragmipedium besseae Dodson & Kuhn 1981 SECTION Micropetalum

Photo by © JOHN MARCOTTE

TYPE Drawing

TYPE Drawing by © Calaway Dodson

Phragmipedium besseae var flava Dodson & Kuhn 1981

Photo by © Eric Hunt

Color variation

Photo by Allen Black

LATEand

Common Name Mrs. Besse's Phragmipedium [American Orchid Collector 20th century]

Flower Size 1.6 to 2.6" [4 to 6.5 cm]

Found in Colombia, Ecuador and Peru on the eastern slopes of the Andes on cliff-faces of riversides, on granite rocks, in wet montane forests at elevations of 1000 to 1500 meters as a small sized, cool growing, lithophyte or terrestrial with 6 to 10, linear to narrowly elliptic, coriaceous, dark green leaves held in a broad, fan shape that blooms in the late winter and spring on a terminal, erect, 12 to 16" [30 to 40 cm] long, 1 to 4, succesive flowered, pubescent, racemose inflorescence that is shorter than the leaves with elliptic, boat-shaped, shorer tha the ovary floral bracts.

Synonyms Paphiopedilum besseae (Dodson & J.Kuhn) V.A.Albert & Börge Pett. 1994; Phragmipedium besseae var. flavum Braem 1990; Phragmipedium besseae f. flavum (Braem) O.Gruss & Roeth 1999

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;

* AOS Bulletin Vol 50 No 11:1308 Dodson & Kuhn 1981 photo/drawing fide;

AOS Bulletin Vol 55 No 4 1986 photo fide;

AOS Bulletin Vol 56 No 7 1987 photo fide;

Icones Planetarum Tropicarum Series II plate 567 Dodson 1989 drawing fide;

Schlechteriana 1990: 55 Braem 1990 Phragmipedium besseae var. flavum

Orchids Travel By Air A Pictoral Safari Mulder, Mulder-Roelfsema and Schuiteman 1990 photo fide;

Native Colombian Orchids Vol 3 COS 1991 photo fide;

AOS Bulletin Vol 61 No 11 1992 photo;

AOS Bulletin Vol 61 # 12 1992 as P besseae var flava photo fide;

The Manual Of Cultivated Orchid Species Bechtel, Cribb & Launert 1992 photo fide;

Lindleyana 9: 137 V.A.Albert & Börge Pett.1994 as Paphiopedilum bessae;

AOS Bulletin No 63 No 9 1994 photo fide;

AOS Bulletin Vol 64 No 11 1995 photo fide;

Icones Orchidacearum Peruviarum Plate 346 Bennett & Christenson 1995 drawing fide;

AOS Bulletin Vol 66 No 2 1997 photo fide;

AOS Bulletin Vol 66 No 9 1997 photo;

AOS Bulletin Vol 66 No 12 1997 photo fide;

AOS Bulletin Vol 66 # 12 1997 as P besseae var flava photo fide;

Orchid Digest Vol 62 #4 1998 photo fide;

Orchid Digest Vol 62 #4 1998 as P besseae var flava photo fide;

AOS Bulletin Vol 67 No 12 1998 photo fide;

Orchids Australia Vol 10 No 3 1998 as P besseae var flava photo;

Orchids Australia Vol 10 No 5 1998 as P besseae var flava photo;

AOS Bulletin Vol 68 No 8 1999 photo fide;

AOS Bulletin Vol 68 No 8 1999as P besseae var flava photo;

AOS Bulletin Vol 68 No 9 1999 photo fide;

Caesiana 12: 65 O.Gruss & Roeth 1999 as Phragmipedium besseae f. flavum;

AOS Bulletin Vol 69 No 1 2000 photo fide;

Orchid Australia Vol 12 No 2 2000 photo;

Rudolf Schlechter Die Orchideen Band 1C lieferung 40 pg 2492 - 2564 Brieger 2000;

Orchids Australia Vol 13 No 2 2001 photo;

AOS Bulletin Vol 70 No 3 2001 drawing fide;

AOS Bulletin Vol 71 No 3 2002;

AOS Bulletin Vol 71 No 11 2002 drawing fide;

Australian Orchid Review Vol 68 No 5 2003 photo;

AOS Bulletin Vol 72 No 8 2003 photo fide;

AOS Bulletin Vol 72 No 8 2003 as P besseae var flava photo;

Native Ecuadorian Orchids Vol 4 Dodson 2003 drawing/photo fide;

Australian Orchid Review Vol 69 No 4 2004 photo;

Australian Orchid Review Vol 69 No 4 2004 as P besseae var flava photo;

AOS Bulletin Vol 74 No 6 2005 photo fide;

Orchid Digest Vol 71 No 1 2007 photo fide;

AOS Bulletin Vol 76 No 5 2007 photo fide;

AOS Bulletin Vol 78 #3 2009 photo fide;

AOS Bulletin vol 78 No 12 2009 photo fide; AOS Bulletin vol 78 No 12 2009as P besseae var flava photo fide;

Orchid Species of Peru Zelenko & Bermudez 2009 photo fide;

Orchid Species of Peru Zelenko & Bermudez 2009 as P besseae var flava photo fide;

Mille et Une Mini Orchideees Roguenant 2009 photo fide;

Mille et Une Mini Orchideees Roguenant 2009 as P besseae var flava photo fide;

AOS Bulletin Vol 79 #2 2010 photo fide;

AOS Bulletin Vol 80 #3 2011 photo fide;

Las Orquideas del Peru Izerskyy & Bezverhov 2011 photo fide;

AOS Bulletin Vol 81 #3 2012 photo fide;

Orchid Digest Vol 79 #2 2015 photo fide;

AOS Bulletin Vol 85 #6 2015 photo fide;

AOS Bulletin Vol 85 #1 2016 photo fide;

AOS Bulletin Vol 85 #2 2016 photo fide;

AOS Bulletin Vol 85 #5 2016 photo fide;

AOS Bulletin Vol 85 #8 2016 as P besseae var flava photo fide;

AOS Bulletin Vol 85 #10 2016 photo fide;

AOS Bulletin Vol 86 # 1 2017 as P besseae var flava photo fide;

AOS Bulletin Vol 86 #2 2017 photo fide;

Orchid Digest Vol 82 #2 2018 Photo fide;

AOS Bulletin Vol 88 # 1 2019 photo fide;

AOS Bulletin Vol 88 #3 2019 as P besseae var flava photo fide;

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