Phragmipedium klotzschianum (Rchb.f.) Rolfe 1896 SECTION Himantopetalum
Photo by Robert Takase
Drawing by Matilda Smith & J N Fitch
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Common Name Klotsch's Phragmipedium [German Director of Imperial Botanical Garden 1800's]
Flower Size 1.4 to 1.6" [3.5 to 4 cm]
Found in Venezuela, Guyana and Brazil in sand among boulders near rivers and streams at elevations of 400 to 1800 meters as a small sized, hot to cool growing terrestrial with 4 to 8, held in a fan, coriaceous, glabrous, distichous, imbricate, narrowly linear, apically bilobed leaves that blooms in the summer on a one to occasionally, successively few flowered, erect, hirsute-glandulous, 10 to 24" [25 to 60 cm] long inflorescence with a few distant, ovate-lanceolate, acute to subacute bracts
Synonyms *Cypripedium klotzschianum Rchb.f. 1850; Cypripedium schomburgkianum Klotzsch ex M.R.Schomb. 1876; Paphiopedilum klotzschianum (Rchb.f.) Stein 1892; Selenipedium klotzschianum (Rchb.f.) Rchb.f. 1854; Selenipedium schomburgkianum (Klotzsch ex M.R.Schomb.) Desbois 1888
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
Linnaea 22: 811 Rchb.f 1850 as Cypripedium klotzschianum;
Xenia Orchid. 1: 3 Rchb.f 1854 as Selenipedium klotzschianum;
Bot. Remin. Br. Guiana: 59 Klotzsch ex M.R.Schomb. 1876 as Cypripedium schomburgkianum;
Monogr. Cypriped.: 141 Desbois 1888 as Selenipedium schomburgkianum
Orchid.-Buch: 473 Stein 1892 as Paphiopedilum klotzschianum;
* Orchid Rev. 4: 332 Rolfe 1896
Die Orchideen Schlechter 1915 as Phragmopedilum klotzschianum;
Atlas des Orchidees Cultivees Constantin 1920 as Cypripedium klotzschianum drawing good;
Flora Brasilica Vol XII I Hoehne 1940 as Phragmopedilum klotzschianum drawing ok;
Venezuelan Orchids Illostrated Vol 3 Dunsterville & Garay 1965 drawing ok;
Flora de Venezuela Foldats Volumen XV Part 1 1969 drawing ok;
Orchid Digest Vol 34 #6 1970 drawing/photo fide;
Die Orchideen 3 Auflage Bd 1 Sonderabdruck aus Schlechter Lieferung 3 129 to 192; Brieger, Maatsch and Senghas 1971;
Orchid Digest Vol 36 No 4 1972 photo fide;
Orchidaceae Brasilenses Band 1 Pabst & Dungs 1975 drawing fide;
Orchids of Venezuela, An Illustrated Field Guide Vol 3 Dunsterville & Garay 1979 drawing ok;
AOS Bulletin Vol 51 No 7 1982 photo fide;
Orchid Digest Vol 47 No 3 1983 photo fide;
AOS Bulletin Vol 52 No 10 1983 photo fide;
The Manual Of Cultivated Orchid Species Bechtel, Cribb & Launert 1992 photo fide;
AOS Bulletin Vol 64 No 10 1995 photo good;
Venezuela; Paraiso de Orquideas Romero 1997 photo fide;
Rudolf Schlechter Die Orchideen Band 1C lieferung 40 pg 2492 - 2564 Brieger 2000;
Orchids of Venezuela [An illustrated field guide] Vol. 3 Ramiro and Carnevali 2000 drawing fide;
AOS Bulletin Vol 71 No 5 2002 photo fide;
Flora of the Venezuelan Guayana Vol 7 Steyermark, Berry, Yatskievych and Holst 2003 drawing fide;
Orquideas de Roirama Luz & Franco 2012 photo fide;
*Materials to the Orchid Flora of Colombia Vol 1: 69 Szlatchetko & Kolanowska 2017 drawing/photo fide;
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