Paphiopedilum affine De Wild. 1906 SUBGENUS Paphiopedilum SECTION Paphiopedilum Karasawa & Saito 1982 Photo by © Jo Levy and The Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria Website

Another flower Photo by © Ron Parsons

Full shade Warm

Common Name The Similar Paphiopedium

Flower Size 4” [10 cm]

Found in north Vietnam and southern China as a small sized, warm growing terrestrial with linear-oblong, slightly tesselated above, bidentate apically leaves taht blooms on an erect, to 6” [15 cm] long, pubescent, green, slightly streaked with purple, single flowered inflorescence with slightly less that half as long as the ovary, green striped with crimson basally , glavbrous, cilate margined floral bracts

Synonyms Paphiopedilum villosum f. affine (De Wild.) O.Gruss & Roellke 2007; Paphiopedilum villosum var affine [De Wildeman] Braem 1988;

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Orchid Digest Vol 51 No 2 1987 as P affine photo fide; Orchid Digest Vol 55 No 3 1991 as P affine photo fide; Orchid Digest Vol 76 #4 2012 photo fide

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