Paphinia herrerae Dodson 1989
Lip Detail Photos by © Alexander Hirtz
Inflorescence Photo by © Lourens Grobler
Lighter color form Photo by © Weyman Bussey, plant grown by Howard Gunn
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Common Name Herrera's Paphinia [Ecuadorian Orchid Enthusiast]
Flower Size 3 to 4" [7.5 to 10 cm]
This species hails from Ecuador as a small sized, warm to cool growing epiphyte that is found at elevations of 700 to 1200 meters in very wet montane forests with flattened, ovate, light green pseudobulbs subtended by 2 to 3 distichous, imbricating foliaceous sheaths with 2 thin, obovate, obtuse, apiculate leaves that are heavily veined on the underside, deciduous, basally clasping leaves that blooms in the fall through spring on a basal, pendant, 10" [to 25 cm] long, 3 to 7 flowered inflorescence arising on a mature pseudobulb enveloped by 3 to 5 tubular, inflated sheaths and having tubular floral bracts enveloping the ovary.
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
Icones Planetarum Tropicarum Series II plate 565 Dodson 1989 drawing ok; Orchid Digest Vol 63 #1 1999 photo fide; Rudolf Schlechter Die Orchideen Band 1C lieferung 37/38 pg 2309 - 2436 Brieger 1999 photo ok; AOS Bulletin Vol 71 No 3 2002 photo fide; Native Ecuadorian Orchids Vol 4 Dodson 2003 photo fide; Orchid Digest Vol 71 No 1 2007 drawing/photo fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 76 No 7 2007 photo fide; Orchid Species of Peru Zelenko Bermudez 2009 as P neudeckerii photo fide; Orquideologia Vol 28 #2 2011 photo fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 84 #4 2015 photo fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 85 #12 2016 photo fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 86 #5 2017 photo fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 86 #9 2017 photo fide;
Paphinia herrerae Dodson 1989 var alba
A white color form of the previous species.
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; AOS Bulletin Vol 85 #10 2016 photo fide;
Paphinia herrerae Dodson 1989 var rosea
Photos by © David Jubineau And His Bulbophyllum & Co. Website
A rose colored variety of the previous species.
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