Phragmipedium besseae Dodson & Kuhn 1981 SECTION Micropetalum
Another Flower In Situ Azuay province of Ecuador 1700 meters
Another Flower In Situ Morona Santiago province of Ecuador 1200 meters
Roadbank with Flowers In Situ Azuay province of Ecuador 1200 meters
In Situ Azuay and Morona Santiago provinces of Ecuador 1200 to 1700 meters Photo by © Jay Pfahl
Photo by © JOHN MARCOTTE
TYPE Drawing by © Calaway Dodson
Phragmipedium besseae var flava Dodson & Kuhn 1981
Photo by © Eric Hunt
Photo by Allen Black
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Common Name Mrs. Besse's Phragmipedium [American Orchid Collector 20th century]
Flower Size 1.6 to 2.6" [4 to 6.5 cm]
Found in Colombia, Azuay Province of Ecuador and Peru on the eastern slopes of the Andes on roadbanks in drip zones, cliff-faces of riversides, on granite rocks, in wet montane forests at elevations of 1000 to 1700 meters as a small sized, cool growing, lithophyte or terrestrial with 6 to 10, linear to narrowly elliptic, coriaceous, dark green leaves held in a broad, fan shape that blooms in the late winter and spring on a terminal, erect, 12 to 16" [30 to 40 cm] long, 1 to 4, succesive flowered, pubescent, racemose inflorescence that is shorter than the leaves with elliptic, boat-shaped, shorter than the ovary floral bracts.
Synonyms Paphiopedilum besseae (Dodson & J.Kuhn) V.A.Albert & Börge Pett. 1994; Phragmipedium besseae var. flavum Braem 1990; Phragmipedium besseae f. flavum (Braem) O.Gruss & Roeth 1999
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
* AOS Bulletin Vol 50 No 11:1308 Dodson & Kuhn 1981 photo/drawing fide;
AOS Bulletin Vol 55 No 4 1986 photo fide;
AOS Bulletin Vol 56 No 7 1987 photo fide;
Icones Planetarum Tropicarum Series II plate 567 Dodson 1989 drawing fide;
Schlechteriana 1990: 55 Braem 1990 Phragmipedium besseae var. flavum
Orchids Travel By Air A Pictoral Safari Mulder, Mulder-Roelfsema and Schuiteman 1990 photo fide;
Native Colombian Orchids Vol 3 COS 1991 photo fide;
AOS Bulletin Vol 61 No 11 1992 photo;
AOS Bulletin Vol 61 # 12 1992 as P besseae var flava photo fide; The Manual Of Cultivated Orchid Species Bechtel, Cribb & Launert 1992 photo fide; Lindleyana 9: 137 V.A.Albert & Börge Pett.1994 as Paphiopedilum bessae; AOS Bulletin No 63 No 9 1994 photo fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 64 No 11 1995 photo fide; Icones Orchidacearum Peruviarum Plate 346 Bennett & Christenson 1995 drawing fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 66 No 2 1997 photo fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 66 No 9 1997 photo; AOS Bulletin Vol 66 No 12 1997 photo fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 66 # 12 1997 as P besseae var flava photo fide; Orchid Digest Vol 62 #4 1998 photo fide; Orchid Digest Vol 62 #4 1998 as P besseae var flava photo fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 67 No 12 1998 photo fide; Orchids Australia Vol 10 No 3 1998 as P besseae var flava photo; Orchids Australia Vol 10 No 5 1998 as P besseae var flava photo; AOS Bulletin Vol 68 No 8 1999 photo fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 68 No 8 1999as P besseae var flava photo; AOS Bulletin Vol 68 No 9 1999 photo fide; Caesiana 12: 65 O.Gruss & Roeth 1999 as Phragmipedium besseae f. flavum; AOS Bulletin Vol 69 No 1 2000 photo fide; Orchid Australia Vol 12 No 2 2000 photo; Rudolf Schlechter Die Orchideen Band 1C lieferung 40 pg 2492 - 2564 Brieger 2000; Orchids Australia Vol 13 No 2 2001 photo; AOS Bulletin Vol 70 No 3 2001 drawing fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 71 No 3 2002; AOS Bulletin Vol 71 No 11 2002 drawing fide; Australian Orchid Review Vol 68 No 5 2003 photo; AOS Bulletin Vol 72 No 8 2003 photo fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 72 No 8 2003 as P besseae var flava photo; Native Ecuadorian Orchids Vol 4 Dodson 2003 drawing/photo fide; Australian Orchid Review Vol 69 No 4 2004 photo; Australian Orchid Review Vol 69 No 4 2004 as P besseae var flava photo; AOS Bulletin Vol 74 No 6 2005 photo fide; Orchid Digest Vol 71 No 1 2007 photo fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 76 No 5 2007 photo fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 78 #3 2009 photo fide; AOS Bulletin vol 78 No 12 2009 photo fide;
Orchid Species of Peru Zelenko & Bermudez 2009 photo fide;
Orchid Species of Peru Zelenko & Bermudez 2009 as P besseae var flava photo fide;
Mille et Une Mini Orchideees Roguenant 2009 photo fide;
Mille et Une Mini Orchideees Roguenant 2009 as P besseae var flava photo fide;
AOS Bulletin Vol 79 #2 2010 photo fide;
AOS Bulletin Vol 80 #3 2011 photo fide;
Las Orquideas del Peru Izerskyy & Bezverhov 2011 photo fide;
AOS Bulletin Vol 81 #3 2012 photo fide;
Orchid Digest Vol 79 #2 2015 photo fide;
AOS Bulletin Vol 85 #6 2015 photo fide;
AOS Bulletin Vol 85 #1 2016 photo fide;
AOS Bulletin Vol 85 #2 2016 photo fide;
AOS Bulletin Vol 85 #5 2016 photo fide;
AOS Bulletin Vol 85 #8 2016 as P besseae var flava photo fide;
AOS Bulletin Vol 85 #10 2016 photo fide;
AOS Bulletin Vol 86 # 1 2017 as P besseae var flava photo fide;
AOS Bulletin Vol 86 #2 2017 photo fide;
Orchid Digest Vol 82 #2 2018 Photo fide;
AOS Bulletin Vol 88 # 1 2019 photo fide;
AOS Bulletin Vol 88 #3 2019 as P besseae var flava photo fide;
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