Phragmipedium christiansenianum O.Gruss & Roeth 2001 SECTION Lorifolia
Photos by D O G Archive, Olaf Gruss.
Photo by Patricia Harding.
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Common Name Christiansen's Phragmipedium [Danish Nurseryman current]
Flower Size
Found in Colombia as a large sized terresral with a short stem carrying in a fan shape, 6, narrowly oblong, long-acuminate, coriaceous, obliquely upright, midrib recessed, underside keeled, upper side dark green, yellowish-green beneath, glabrous leaves that blooms in the spring through early summer on an erect, to 18" [45 cm] long, erect, red-brown, glabrous, successively 1 to 2, 3 to 6 flowered inflorescence with a shorter than the ovary, lanceolate-narrow ovate, shortly bicuspidate floral bract.
"often cited as a synonym of Phragmipedium longifolium but P christiansenianum differs in the broadly oval staminode versus subrhombic to triangular, entire to obscurely lobulat in front with heavy black hispid hairs along the basal margins. Also compared to Phragmipedium pearcei but differs in the broadly cordate triangular staminode versus a broadly oval staminode versus in P christiansenianum." Szlatchetko & Kolanowska 2017
Synonyms
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
*Orchidee (Hamburg) 52: 76 O.Gruss & Roeth 2001
Orchid Digest Vol 82 #3 2018 photo fide;
Materials to the Orchid Flora of Colombia Vol 1: 77 Szlatchetko & Kolanowska 2017 as Incertae Sedis photo fide;
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