Phragmipedium boissierianum (Rchb. f.) Rolfe 1896 SECTION Lorifolia
Photo by © Lourens Grobler
Drawing by © J Boniface
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Common Name Boissier's Phragmipedium [Swiss Botanist]
Flower Size to 6" [to 15 cm]
Found in Ecuador and Peru in wet montane forests at elevations of 410 to 1400 meters on southwestern facing cliffs with water seepage or on grassy, sparsely bushy slopes in black loam near the edge of montane jungles as a medium sized, warm to cool growing, fan-shaped terrestrial orchid with no pseudobulbs, lorate, acute, distichous, imbricating, dark green, glossy, conduplicate below into the base leaves that blooms in the fall through spring on a 2 to 3' [60 to 90 cm] long, erect, dark brown purple to maroon inflorescence with 4 to 6 distant bracts carrying 3 to 15, successively opening flowers.
"Distinguished by the glabrous column, the subrhombic-triangular staminode, thickened and raised down the center with an acute apex and the undulate lateral sepal margins." Bennett & Christenson 1993
Synonyms *Cypripedium boissierianum Rchb. f. 1854; Cypripedium grandiflorum Pav. ex Rchb. 1856; Paphiopedilum boissierianum (Rchb. f.) Pfitzer 1894; Phragmipedium cajamarcae Schltr. 1921; Phragmopedilum boissierianum (Rchb. f.) Pfitzer 1903; Phragmopedilum cajamarcae Schltr. 1921; Selenipedium boissierianum Rchb. f. 1854
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
Bonplandia 2:116 Rchb.f 1856 as Cypripedium boisserianum;
Bonplandia 2:116 Rchb.f 1856 as Cypripedium boisserianum
Xenia Orchidaceae Rchb.f 1858 as Cypripedium boissierianum drawing;
Orchid.-Buch: 456 Stein 1892 as Paphiopedilum boiserrianum;
* Orchid Rev. 4: 332 Rolfe 1896
< Ahref="https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/100868#page/36/mode/1up"> Die Orchideen Schlechter 1915
Die Orchideen Schlechter 1915 as Phragmopedilum boissierianum;
Repert. Spec. Nov. Regni Veg. Beih. 9: 41 Schlechter 1921 as P cajamarcae;
Atlas des Orchidees Cultivees Constantin 1920 as Selenipedium boiserianum drawing ok;
Die Orchideen der Sudamerikanischen Kordillerenstaaten IV Peru Schlechter 1921 as Phragmopedium cajamarcae;
Flora Brasilica Vol XII I Hoehne 1940 as Phragmopedilum boissieranum drawing ok;
Encyclopedia of Cultivated Orchids Hawkes 1965;
AOS Bulletin Vol 37 No 11 1968 photo fide;
Die Orchideen 3 Auflage Bd 1 Sonderabdruck aus Schlechter Lieferung 3 129 to 192; Brieger, Maatsch and Senghas 1971;
AOS Bulletin Vol 49 No 12 1980 photo fide;
AOS Bulletin Vol 50 No 11 1981 photo;
AOS Bulletin Vol 60 No 6/546 1991 photo;
AOS Bulletin Vol 61 #12 1992 photo fide;
The Manual Of Cultivated Orchid Species Bechtel, Cribb & Launert 1992 drawing fide;
Icones Orchidacearum Peruviarum Plate 151 Bennett & Christenson 1993 drawing fide;
Rudolf Schlechter Die Orchideen Band 1C lieferung 40 pg 2492 - 2564 Brieger 2000 photo fide;
AOS Bulletin Vol 72 No 3 2003 photo fide;
Native Ecuadorian Orchids Vol 4 Dodson 2003 photo fide;
Orchid Species of Peru Zelenko & Bermudez 2009 photo fide;
AOS Bulletin Vol 79 #2 2010 photo fide;
Las Orquideas del Peru Izerskyy & Bezverhov 2011 photo fide;
Orchid Digest Vol 83 #2 2019 photo fide;
AOS Bulletin Vol 88 # 1 2019 photo fide;
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