Phragmipedium fischeri Braem & H. Mohr 1996 SECTION Micropetalum
Photo by Joseph Dougerty
Photo by © P. A. Mahon
Common Name Fischer's Phragmipedium [American Orchid Enthusiast current]
Flower Size 2" [5 cm]
Found in Valle de Cauca Ecuador on laterite, grassy slopes exposed to full sun at elevations of 1000 to 1500 meters as a small sized, cool growing, terrestrial orchid with 3 to 5, ligulate-linear, acute leaves that blooms in the winter on an erect to arching to suberect, terminal, peduncle finely white pubescent, to 8" [20 cm] long, successively single, few flowered inflorescence with ovate-lanceolate, acute, shorter than the pedicel floral bracts and carrying showy flowers, .
CAUTION Many references place this species as s a synonym of Phragmipedium schlimii [Linden ex Rchb.f] Rolfe 1896 but it differs in its transversely pandurate staminode, that is distinctly wider than long and with an emarginated apex. All others have staminodes that are longer than wide except P manzurii which has a suborbicular staminode." Szlatchetko & Kolanowska 2017
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
*Leafl. Schlechter Inst. 3: 30 Braem & H.Mohr 1996
AOS Bulletin Vol 66 No 12 1997 photo fide;
Japan Orchid Soc. Bull. 43: 34 O Gruss 2000 as Phragmipedium schlimii var. fischeri
Native Ecuadorian Orchids Vol 4 Dodson 2003 photo fide;
Orchid Digest Vol 74 #2 2010 photo fide;
Orchid Digest Vol 81 #3 2017 photo fide;
*Materials to the Orchid Flora of Colombia Vol 1: 53 Szlatchetko & Kolanowska 2017 drawing/photo fide;
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