Paphiopedilum acmodontum M.W. Wood 1976
SUBGENUS Paphiopedilum SECTION Barbata SUBSECTION Chloroneura
Photo by Eric Hunt, plant grown by Vintage Orchids
Photo by Kim Robilliard of Misty valley Orchids
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Common Name The Pointed Tooth Paphiopedilum [refers to the teeth-like projections on the lip]
Flower Size 2 3/4" [7 cm]
Endemic to the Philippines as a medium-sized, hot to warm growing terrestrial at elevations up to 1000 meters with distichous, elliptic-oblong, acuminate, minutely tridentate apically leaves that are tesselated light and dark green that blooms on an erect, single flowered, to 10" [25 cm] long, sparsely pubescent, green and purple splashed inflorescence with ovate, pubescent floral bracts.
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Orchid Digest Vol 36 No 2 1972 photo fide; Orchid Digest Vol 37 No 4 1973 photo fide; Orchid Digest Vol 45 No 2 1981 photo fide; Orchidiana Philipiniana Vol 1 Valmayor 1984; The Manual Of Cultivated Orchid Species Bechtel, Cribb & Launert 1992 photo fide; Orchid Digest Vol 59 No 3 1995 photo fide; Rudolf Schlechter Die Orchideen Band 1C lieferung 40 pg 2492 - 2564 Brieger 2000 ; Orchids of the Philippines Cootes 2001 photo fide; Flora Malesiana Orchids of the Philippines Vol I Agoo, Shuiteman and de Vogel 2003; Orchid Digest Vol 76 #4 2012 photo fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 89 #2 2020 photo fide
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