IOSPE PHOTOS

Phragmipedium kovachii J.T.Atwood, Dalström & R.Fernández G. 2002 SECTION Micropetalum

Side View of Flower

Photos by Jay Pfahl

Original Type Plant

Kovach and his Phragmipedium

Photos by Lee Moore>

TYPE Drawing

TYPE Drawing by Stig Dalstrom

Common Name Kovach's Phragmipedium [American Collector of Species Current]

Flower Size 4.4 to 7.2" [11 to 18 cm]

Found exclusively in northeastern Peru in the Dept of Amazonas at elevations of 1800 to 2200 meters on rocky slopes with pebblely soil and rocky sand as a large sized, cool to cold growing, caespitose terestrial with 3 or more, ligulate, thick, coriaceous, keeled beneath, sharply acute leaves blooms in the spring on an erect, purple pubescent, provided with a single, green bract to 9.2 to 10" [3'] [23 to 25 [90] cm] long, successively single to 4 flowered inflorescence with an acute, , shorter than the ovary floral bract.

Discovered in 2002 in Peru as a large sized, cool to cold growing terrestrial orchid and since imbroiled in a CITIES hissy fit. This species may be the downfall of the orchid collector and maybe even the scientific community involved in its description. Marie Selby Gardens has been fined for it's participation in describing this species and has asked that the name be changed to P. peruvianum, a virtual impossibility because of nomenclature rules that have no directives in place to acheive it. The name stays here as in-country politics [Both Peru's and the United States] cannot affect the worldwide, scientific community's, nomenclature rules.

Synonyms Phragmipedium peruvianum Christenson 2002

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;

* Selbyana 23(Suppl.): 1 J.T.Atwood, Dalström & Ric.Fernández 2002 Drawing/photofide

AOS Bulletin Vol 71 No 7 2002 as Phrag peruvianum photo fide;

Orchid Digest Vol 66 #4 2002 photo fide;

AOS Bulletin Vol 72 No 10 2003 photo fide;

AOS Bulletin Vol 72 No 11 2003 photo fide;

Australian Orchid Review Vol 69 No 1 2004 photo fide;

AOS Bulletin Vol 73 No 1 2004 photo;

AOS Bulletin Vol 73 No 2 2004 drawing fide;

AOS Bulletin Vol 74 No 2 2005 photo/drawing fide;

AOS Bulletin Vol 74 No 4 2005 photo fide;