Phragmipedium pearcei [Rchb.f] Rauh & Senghas 1975
Photo by © Lourens Grobler
Photo courtesy of Eric Hunt, plant grown by Dennis Westler
Photo by Jean Claude George
Drawing By B Culbertson/Dodson & Bennett
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Common Name Pearce's Phragmmipedium [English Orchid Collector late 1800's]
Flower Size 2" [5 cm]
Found in Costa Rica, Colombia, Ecuador and Peru often near rivers and on boulders within rivers, at elevations of 300 to 1200 meters as a small sized, hot to cool growing, caespitose terrestrial or lithophytic orchid with close set grows in leaf fans made up of imbricating, conduplicate leaf-bearing sheaths carrying distichous, coriaceous, linear, pointed, curved, 10" [25 cm], conduplicate from the middle to the base leaves that blooms in the summer on a terminal, stiff, erect and pubescent, 5.6" [14 cm] long, purple, successively single, multiflowered inflorescence carrying non fragrant flowers.
"Distinguished by the small statured elfin form, the extremely narrow leaves, the band of trichomes along the leading rim of the labellum and the total plant height in bloom of less than 10" [25 cm]. P pearcei is closely related to P caricinum a species with wider leaves, a taller palnt habit and no trichomes along the leading rim of the labellum. Bennett & Chritenson 2001
Synonyms Cypripedium pearcei Veitch ex J.Dix 1864; Paphiopedilum ecuadorense (Garay) V.A.Albert & Börge Pett. 1994; Paphiopedilum pearcei (Rchb.f.) V.A.Albert & Börge Pett. 1994; Phragmipedium ecuadorense Garay 1978; Phragmipedium pearcei var. ecuadorense (Garay) C.Cash ex O.Gruss 1994; Selenipedium longifolium Rchb.f 1854; *Selenipedium pearcei Rchb. f. 1866
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
Proc. Roy. Hort. Soc. London 4: 133 Veitch ex J.Dix 1864 as Cypripedium pearcei;
Hamburger Garten- Blumenzeitung 21: 298 Rchb.f 1865 as Selenipedium pearcei;
Flora of Ecuador No 9 225[1]: 15 Garay 1978 as P ecuadorense drawing fide;
Flora of Ecuador No 9 225[1]: 29 Garay 1978;
AOS Bulletin Vol 50 No 11 1981 photo fide;
AOS Bulletin Vol 50 No 11 1981 as P ecuadorense photo fide;
AOS Bulletin Vol 52 No 10 1983 photo fide;
AOS Bulletin Vol 52 No 10 1983 as P ecuadorense photo fide;
Icones Planetarum Tropicarum Series II plate 569 Dodson 1989 drawing fide;
Icones Planetarum Tropicarum Series II Orchids of Peru Plate 0153 Dodson & Bennett 1989 drawing fide;
AOS Bulletin Vol 60 #6 1991 as P ecuadorense
AOS Bulletin Vol 61 No 12 1992 photo fide;
AOS Bulletin Vol 61 No 12 1992 as P ecuadoriense photo fide;
The Manual Of Cultivated Orchid Species Bechtel, Cribb & Launert 1992 drawing fide;
Orchidee (Hamburg) 45: 207 C.Cash ex O.Gruss 1994 as P pearcei var ecuadorense;
Lindleyana 9: 138 V.A.Albert & Börge Pett. 1994 as Paphiopedilum pearcei;
Lindleyana 9: 137 V.A.Albert & Börge Pett. 1994Paphiopedilum ecuadorense
Orchid Australia Vol 11 No 5 1999 photo;
Orchid Australia Vol 11 No 6 1999 photo;
Rudolf Schlechter Die Orchideen Band 1C lieferung 40 pg 2492 - 2564 Brieger 2000;
Rudolf Schlechter Die Orchideen Band 1C lieferung 40 pg 2492 - 2564 Brieger 2000 as P ecuadorense;
Icones Orchidacearum Peruviarum Plate 741 Bennett & Christenson 2001 drawing fide;
AOS Bulletin Vol 72 No 3 2003 photo fide;
Native Ecuadorian Orchids Vol 4 Dodson 2003 drawing/photo fide;
AOS Bulletin Vol 74 No 2 2005 photo fide;
AOS Bulletin vol 78 No 10 2009 photo fide;
AOS Bulletin vol 78 No 11 2009 photo fide;
Orchid Species of Peru Zelenko & Bermudez 2009 photo fide;
Mille et Une Mini Orchideees Roguenant 2009 photo fide;
Orquideas del Peru Freuler 2010 photo fide;
AOS Bulletin Vol 80 #6 2011 photo fide;
Las Orquideas del Peru Izerskyy & Bezverhov 2011 photo fide;
AOS Bulletin Vol 81 #2 2012 photo fide;
AOS Bulletin Vol 81 #7 2012 photo fide;
Orchid Digest Vol 80 #2 2016 photo fide;
AOS Bulletin Vol 85 #5 2016 photo fide;
Orchid Digest Vol 81 #3 2017 photo fide;
*Materials to the Orchid Flora of Colombia Vol 1: 66 Szlatchetko & Kolanowska 2017 drawing fide;
*Materials to the Orchid Flora of Colombia Vol 1: 71 Szlatchetko & Kolanowska 2017 as P ecuadorense drawing/photo fide;
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