Phragmipedium hirtzii Dodson 1988 SECTION Lorifolia

Photo by Mark Flandre

Detail of central part of flower

Flower disected in half

Photos by © Luis Baqeuro and Gabriel Ituralde>

Drawing

Drawing by © G Morejon

Common Name Hirtz' Phragmipedium [German Orchid Collector late 1900's]

Flower Size 3.6" [9 cm]

Found in Colombia and Ecuador at elevations of 500 to 900 meters as a medium sized, warm growing terrestrial or lithopyhte on large boulders near watercourses with distichous, imbricating, conduplicate leaf-bearing sheaths carrying distichous, held in a loose fan shape, coriaceous, linear, conduplicate from the middle to the base leaves that blooms at most any time of the year on an erect, terete, 16" [40 cm] long, 5 to 7 flowered inflorescence subtended by three distant appressed sheaths and having successively opening flowers held well above the plant.

Synonyms Paphiopedilum hirtzii (Dodson) V.A.Albert & Börge Pett. 1994; Phragmipedium anchicayense Braem, Tesón & J.P.Faust 2016

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;

* Orchis 58: 129 Dodson 1988

Icones Planetarum Tropicarum Series II plate 568 Dodson 1989 drawing ok;

Lindleyana 9: 137 V.A.Albert & Börge Pett. 1994 as Paphiopedilum hirtzii;

AOS Bulletin Vol 64 No 11 1995 photo fide;

Rudolf Schlechter Die Orchideen Band 1C lieferung 40 pg 2492 - 2564 Brieger 2000;

Native Ecuadorian Orchids Vol 4 Dodson 2003 photo fide;

Libro Rojo de Plantas De Colombia Vol 6 Primera Parte Saenz 2007;

Austral. Orchid Rev. 81(5): 10 Braem, Tesón & J.P.Faust 2016 as P anchicayense

Slipper Orchids Trop. Amer.: 156 P J Cribb 2017 as P hirtzii var anchicayense;

*Materials to the Orchid Flora of Colombia Vol 1: 65 Szlatchetko & Kolanowska 2017 drawing/photo fide;

*Materials to the Orchid Flora of Colombia Vol 1: 65 Szlatchetko & Kolanowska 2017 drawing/photo fide;

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