!Phragmipedium caudatum [Lindley] Rolfe 1896
SECTION Phragmipedium
Plant in situ Near Macchu Picchu Peru 5/2000
Photos by © Jay Pfahl
Photos by Joseph Dougherty
Photo by B Szmit
Drawing by M Pastorelli C
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Common Name The Tailed Phragmipedium [refers to the long petals]
Flower Size 2 1/2' yes feet with the long petals [to 75 cm]
Found in Mexico, Guatemala, Panama, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru and Venezuela in open, fully exposed, grassy slopes and cliff faces in humus soil at elevations of 800 to 2500 meters as a large sized, robust, caespitose, fan-shaped, warm to cold growing lithophyte, terrestrial or epiphyte with imbricate, conduplicate leaf-bearing sheaths carrying ligulate, leathery, distichous, 3 to 4 pairs, basally imbricating, glabrous, dark green conduplicate below into the base leaves and blooms from winter through summer with long lasting, simultaneously opening flowers on a sub-erect, terminal, to 2' [60 cm] long, 3 to 6 flowered, racemose inflorecence that is just longer than the leaves and has a large leafy basal bract and several prominent tubular bracts.
Synonyms *Cypripedium caudatum Lindley 1840; Cypripedium elatum Poit. ex Perr. 1825; Paphiopedilum caudatum [Lindley] Pfitz. 1880; Phragmipedium humboldtii (Warsz. ex Rchb.f.) J.T.Atwood & Dressler 1998 publ. 1999; Phragmopedilum caudatum (Lindl.) Pfitzer 1903; Phragmipedium caudatum f. albertianum (Linden) O.Gruss & M.Wolff 2007; Selenipedium caudatum (Lindl.) Rchb. f. 1854; Selenipedium caudatum var. albertianum Linden 1888; Uropedium lindenii Lindl. 1846
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
Gen. Sp. Orchid. Pl.: 531 Lindley 1840 as Cypripedium caudatum;
Bonplandia 2:116 Rchb.f 1854 as Uropedium lindenii;
Bonplandia Rchb.f 1855 as Uropedium lindenii;
Bonplandia 2:116 Rchb.f 1856 as Selenipedium caudatum;
Bonplandia Rchb.f 1856 as Uropedium lindenii;
Xenia Orchidaceae Rchb.f 1854 as Uropedium lindenii drawing;
Otia Botanica Hamburgensia 20 Rchb.f 1878 as Uropedium lindenii; Jahrb. Wiss. Bot. 19: 164 Pfitzer 1888 as Paphiopediulum caudatum;
* Orchid Rev. 4: 332 Rolfe 1896
Die Orchideen Schlechter 1915 as Phragmopedilum caudatum photo fide;
Die Orchideen Schlechter 1915 as Phragmopedilum caudatum var albertianum;
Die Orchideen Schlechter 1915 as Phragmopedilum caudatum var giganteum;
Die Orchideen Schlechter 1915 as Phragmopedilum caudatum var seegerianum;
Atlas des Orchidees Cultivees Constantin 1920 as Selenipedium caudatum drawing fide;
The Orchids of Panama L.O.Williamds & P. Allen 1946;
Venezuelan Orchids Vol 2 Dunsterville & Garay 1961;
Encyclopedia of Cultivated Orchids Hawkes 1965 photo fide;
AOS Bulletin Vol 38 #7 1969 photo fide;
Flora de Venezuela Foldats Volumen XV Part 1 1969 drawing fide;
Flora de Venezuela Volumen 15 quinta parte Foldats 1970 drawing fide;
Die Orchideen 3 Auflage Bd 1 Sonderabdruck aus Schlechter Lieferung 3 129 to 192; Brieger, Maatsch and Senghas 1971 drawing ok;
Orchid Digest Vol 36 No 2 1972 photo fide;
Orquideologia Vol 12 No 1 1977 photo fide;
AOS Bulletin Vol 47 No 9 1978 as P caudatum var giganteum photo fide;
Orchid Digest Vol 42 No 6 1978 photo fide;
Flora of Ecuador No 9 225[1] Garay 1978;
AOS Bulletin Vol 49 No 3 1980 photo fide;
AOS Bulletin Vol 50 No 11 1981 photo fide;
AOS Bulletin Vol 52 No 9 1983 photo fide;
AOS Bulletin Vol 55 No 4 1986Z photo fide;
Orchids of Venezuela Dunsterville 1987 drawing/photo fide;
Orchids Travel By Air A Pictoral Safari Mulder, Mulder-Roelfsema and Schuiteman 1990 photo fide;
The Manual Of Cultivated Orchid Species Bechtel, Cribb & Launert 1992 drawing/photo fide;
Icones Orchidacearum Peruviarum Plate 152 Bennett & Christenson 1993 drawing fide;
AOS Bulletin Vol 64 No 10 1995 photo fide;
Orchids Australia Vol 10 No 5 1998 photo;
Orchids Australia Vol 10 No 6 1998 photo;
Orchid Australia Vol 11 No 2 1999 photo;
AOS Bulletin Vol 68 No 5 1999 as P caudatum var sansderae photofide;
AOS Bulletin Vol 69 No 12 2000 photo fide;
Rudolf Schlechter Die Orchideen Lieferung 39 2000;
AOS Bulletin Vol 71 No 11 2002 drawing;
Australian Orchid Review Vol 68 No 4 2003 photo;
Native Ecuadorian Orchids Vol 4 Dodson 2003 photo fide;
Orquideologia Vol. 23 No 2 2004;
Australian Orchid Review Vol 69 No 4 2004 photo;
Australian Orchid Review Vol 69 No 5 2004 photo;
Australian Orchid Review Vol 69 No 6 2004/5 photo;
Orquideología Vol 23 #2 2004 drawing/photo fide;
AOS Bulletin Vol 73 No 11 2004 photo fide;
AOS Bulletin Vol 74 No 2 2005 photo fide;
Australian Orchid Review Vol 71 No 2 2006 photo;
AOS Bulletin Vol 75 No 10 2006 photo fide;
Libro Rojo de Plantas De Colombia Vol 6 Primera Parte Saenz 2007;
AOS Bulletin vol 78 No 9 2009 photo fide;
Orchid Species of Peru Zelenko & Bermudez 2009 photo fide;
Orchid Digest Vol 74 #3 2010 photo fide;
Orquideas del Peru Freuler 2010 photo fide;
AOS Bulletin Vol 80 #6 2011 photo fide;
AOS Bulletin Vol 80 #10 2011 photo fide;
Las Orquideas del Peru Izerskyy & Bezverhov 2011 photo fide;
Orchid Digest Vol 78 #2 2014 drawing/photo fide;
Orchid Digest Vol 79 #3 2015 photo fide;
AOS Bulletin Vol 85 #3 2016 as Cypripedium caudatum drawing fide;
AOS Bulletin Vol 85 #5 2016 photo fide;
Materials to the Orchid Flora of Colombia Vol 1: 60 Szlatchetko & Kolanowska 2017 drawing/photo fide;
Orchid Digest Vol 83 #2 2019 photo fide;
AOS Bulletin Vol 88 #10 2019 photo fide;
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