Selenipedium palmifolium (Lindl.) Rchb. f. 1854
Photo by © Patricia Harding
Common Name The Palm-Leaf Selenipedium
Flower Size 2 to 2.8" [5 to 7 cm]
Found in Trinidad, Venezuela, Guyana, and Brazil evergreen forests often near marshy areas at elevations of sea level to 400 meters as a very large, hot to warm growing terrestrial found in poor acidic soil and medium shade with a terete, occasionally branching, densly and coarsely glandular-hairy stems carrying narrowly oblong to narrowly elliptic, glabrous above, sparsely pubescent below, acute leaves and blooms in the fall on a terminal, erect, to 8" [to 20 cm] long, few to several successively flowered inflorescence with broadly lanceolate, glandular-hairy floral bracts with never more than one flower at a time all occuring over several months.
Synonyms *Cypripedium palmifolium Lindl. 1840
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
Gen. Sp. Orchid. Pl.: 527 Lindley 1840 as Cypripedium palmifolium
* Bonplandia (Hannover) 2: 116 Rchb.f 1854
Xenia Orchidaceae 5 Rchb.f 1854 drawing;
Die Orchideen Schlechter 1915;
Flora Brasilica Vol XII I Hoehne 1940 drawing fide;
Iconografia de Orchidaceae Do Brasil Hoehne 1949 drawing fide;
Native Orchids of Trinidad Schultes 1960;
Encyclopedia of Cultivated Orchids Hawkes 1965;
Flora de Venezuela Foldats Volumen XV Part 1 1969 drawing fide;
Die Orchideen 3 Auflage Bd 1 Sonderabdruck aus Schlechter Lieferung 3 129 to 192; Brieger, Maatsch and Senghas 1971 drawing;
Orchidaceae Brasilenses Band 1 Pabst & Dungs 1975 drawing fide;
The Manual Of Cultivated Orchid Species Bechtel, Cribb & Launert 1992 drawing fide;
Boletim CAOB Vol 50 2003;
Flora of the Venezuelan Guayana Vol 7 Steyermark, Berry, Yatskievych and Holst 2003;
AOS Bulletin Vol 80 #8 2011 photo fide;
Richardiana 15: 185 Sambin & Braem 2015 as S chironianum Richardiana 15: 253 Chiron, Sambin & Braem 2015 as Apedium palmifolium;
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