Phragmipedium longifolium [Warsc. & Rchb.f]Rolfe 1896 SECTION Lorifolia
Plant and flowers in situ Ecuador
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Common Name The Long-Leaf Phragmipedium
Flower Size 8" [20 cm]
Found from Costa Rica, Panama, Colombia and Ecuador on roadside banks and in humid arroyos at elevations of 600 to 1700 meters as a medium to large sized, warm to cool growing terrestrial or lithophyte occuring in shaded or open rocky areas with thin soil near streams or seepage areas with very short stems with imbricate, distichous, conduplicate, leaf-bearing sheaths carrying several, linear-lanceolate, dark green above, pale green below, arcuate, acuminate, conduplicate from the middle to the base leaves with the lower leaves being shorter than the rest that blooms on an erect, 24 to 36" [60 to 90 cm] long, pubescent, deep purple or green, terminal, to racemose, several flowered inflorescence that has 3 sterile, distichous, compressed, linear bracts with the 7 to 9 flowers opening in succession and occuring mostly in the fall but it is possible at almost any time of the year.
Synonyms Cypripedium dariense Rchb. f. 1878; Cypripedium gracile H.J.Veitch 1889; Cypripedium hincksianum Rchb.f 1878; *Cypripedium longifolium Warsc & Rchb.f 1852; Cypripedium longifolium var. gracile H.J.Veitch ex Rolfe in ?; Cypripedium reichenbachianum hort. 1887; Cypripedium reichenbachii W. Bull 1869; Cypripedium roezlii Regel 1873; Paphiopedilum hinksianum Pfitz 1894; Paphiopedilum longifolium Pfitz 1888; Paphiopedilum longifolium var. hincksianum (Rchb.f.) Stein 1892; Phragmipedium chapadense Campacci & R.Takase 2000; Phragmipedium dariense (Rchb.f.) Garay 1979; Phragmipedium hincksianum [Rchb.f] Garay 1979; Phragmipedium longifolium f. album O.Gruss & Koop. 2006; Phragmipedium longifolium f. gracile (H.J.Veitch ex Rolfe) O.Gruss 2001; Phragmipedium longifolium f. minutum O.Gruss 2001; Phragmipedium longifolium var. chapadense (Campacci & R.Takase) O.Gruss 2003; Phragmipedium longifolium var. coloratum (Rchb.f.) Pfitzer 1903; Phragmipedium longifolium var. darienense (Rchb.f.) Hallier f. 1897; Phragmipedium longifolium var. gracile (H.J.Veitch) Pfitzer 1903; ; Phragmipedium longifolium var. hincksianum (Rchb.f.) Stein 1892; Phragmipedium longifolium var. splendidum (Pucci) Pfitzer 1903; Phragmopedilum longifolium (Rchb. f. & Warsz.) Pfitzer 1898; Selenipedium dariense Rchb.f 1869; Selenipedium gracile (H.J.Veitch) Desbois 1889; Selenipedium hincksianum Rchb. f. 1878; Selenipedium longifolium Rchb.f 1854; Selenipedium reichenbachii Endres 1869;
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
Bot. Zeitung (Berlin) 10: 690 Wars. & Rchb.f 1852 as Cypripedium longifolium;
Bonplandia (Hannover) 2: 116 Rchb.f 1854 as Selenipedium longifolium;
Xenia Orchidaceae 1:3 Rchb.f 1854 as Cypripedium longifolium drawing;
Nursery Cat. (William Bull) 48: 4 W Bull 1869 as Cypripedium reichenbachii;
Gard. Chron. 1869: 1206 Endres ex Rchb.f 1869 as Selenipedium reichenbachii not validly publ.
Beitr. Orchid.-K.: t. 8 Rchb.f 1869 as Selenipedium dariense;
Gartenflora 1871: 164 Rchb.f 1871 as Selenipedium roezlii;
Gartenflora 22: 97 Regel 1873 as Cypripedium roezlii;
Gard. Chron. 1873: 289 Rchb.f 1873 as Selenipedium longifolium var coloratum;
Gard. Chron., n.s., 9: 202 Rchb.f 1878 as Cypripedium dariense;
Gard. Chron., n.s., 9: 202 Rchb.f 1878 as Cypripedium hinksianum;
Gard. Chron., n.s., 9: 202 Rchb.f 1878 as Selenipedium hinksianum;
Lindenia 3: 90 Anon 1887 as Cypripedium reichenbachianum;
Jahrb. Wiss. Bot. 19: 159 Pfitzer 1888 as Pahiopediulum longifolium;
Monogr. Cypriped.: 136 Desbois 1888 as Selenipedium gracile nom. nud.;
Man. Orchid. Pl. 4: 65 A H Kent 1889 as Cypripedium gracile;
Man. Orchid. Pl. 4: 66 A H Kent 1889 as Cypripedium longifolium var hinksianum;
Gard. Chron., ser. 3, 8: 729 Rolfe 1890 as Cypripedium longifolium var gracile;
Cypripedium: 140 Pucci 1891 as Selenipedium longifolium var gracile;
Cypripedium: 140 Pucci 1891 as Selenipedium longifolium var hinksianum;
Cypripedium: 140 Pucci 1891 as Selenipedium longifolium var splendidum;
Orchid.-Buch: 475 Stein 1892 as Paphiopedilum longifolium var. hincksianum
Bot. Jahrb. Syst. 19: 41 Pfitzer 1894 as Paphiopedium hinksianum;
Bot. Jahrb. Syst. 19: 42 Pfitzer 1894 as Paphiopedium roezlii;
Hortus Boiss.: 364 Autran & T.Durand 1896 as Selenipedium longifolium var roezlii;
* Orchid Rev. 4: 332 Rolfe 1896
Ann. Jard. Bot. Buitenzorg 14: 45 Hallier 1897 as Paphiopedilum longifolium var. dariense
Ann. Jard. Bot. Buitenzorg 14: 45 Hallier 1897 as P longifolium var roezlii;
Ann. Jard. Bot. Buitenzorg 14: 45 Hallier 1897 as P longifolium var dariense;
Pflanzenr., IV, 50(Heft 12): 49 Pfitzer 1903 as P longifolium var coloratum;
Pflanzenr., IV, 50(Heft 12): 49 Pfitzer 1903 as P longifolium var gracile;
Pflanzenr., IV, 50(Heft 12): 49 Pfitzer 1903 Pflanzenr., IV, 50(Heft 12): 49 Pfitzer 1903 as P longifolium var hinksianum;
Pflanzenr., IV, 50(Heft 12): 49 Pfitzer 1903
Pflanzenr., IV, 50(Heft 12): 49 Pfitzer 1903
Pflanzenr., IV, 50(Heft 12): 49 Pfitzer 1903
Pflanzenr., IV, 50(Heft 12): 49 Pfitzer 1903 Pflanzenr., IV, 50(Heft 12): 50 Pfitzer 1903 as P longifolium var splendidum;
Die Orchideen Schlechter 1915 as Phragmopedilum longifolium; Die Orchideen Schlechter 1915 as Phragmopedilum longifolium var coloratum; Die Orchideen Schlechter 1915 as Phragmopedilum longifolium var dariense; Die Orchideen Schlechter 1915 as Phragmopedilum longifolium var gracile; Die Orchideen Schlechter 1915 as Phragmopedilum longifolium var hinksianum; Die Orchideen Schlechter 1915 as Phragmopedilum longifolium var roezlii; Die Orchideen Schlechter 1915 as Phragmopedilum longifolium var splendidum; Atlas des Orchidees Cultivees Constantin 1920 as Selenipedium longifolium var roezlii drawing fide; Flora Brasilica Vol XII I Hoehne 1940; Flora Brasilica Vol XII I Hoehne 1940 as Phragmopedilum longifolium var roezlii drawing ok; AOS Bulletin Vol 27 No 6 1958; Encyclopedia of Cultivated Orchids Hawkes 1965; Orchid Digest Vol 34 #8 1970 photo fide; Die Orchideen 3 Auflage Bd 1 Sonderabdruck aus Schlechter Lieferung 3 129 to 192; Brieger, Maatsch and Senghas 1971; Orchid Digest Vol 37 No 3 1973 as P longifolium var roezlii photo fide; Flora of Ecuador No 9 225[1] Garay 1978 drawing fide; Orchid Digest 43: 141 Garay 1979 as P dariense; Orchid Digest 43: 144 Garay 1979 as P hinksianum; Orchid Digest 43: 145 Garay 1979 as P roezlii Icones Planetarum Tropicarum plate 202 Dodson 1980 drawing fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 50 No 8 1981 photo fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 50 No 11 1981; AOS Bulletin Vol 53 No 6 1984 photo; Orchids from The Coast Of Ecuador Arosemana, Jurado, Estrada and Konanz 1988 photo fide; Orchids Travel By Air A Pictoral Safari Mulder, Mulder-Roelfsema and Schuiteman 1990 photo fide; Native Colombian Orchids Vol 3 COS 1991 photo fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 61 No 11 1992 photo; The Manual Of Cultivated Orchid Species Bechtel, Cribb & Launert 1992 drawing/photo fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 62 No 9 1993 photo fide; Phylogeny and Classification of the Orchid Family Dressler 1993 drawing fide/ photo; AOS Bulletin Vol 65 No 6 1996 as P longifolium var gracile photo fide; Rudolf Schlechter Die Orchideen Band 1C lieferung 40 pg 2492 - 2564 Brieger 2000; Rudolf Schlechter Die Orchideen Band 1C lieferung 40 pg 2492 - 2564 Brieger 2000 as P dariense; Rudolf Schlechter Die Orchideen Band 1C lieferung 40 pg 2492 - 2564 Brieger 2000 as P hincksianum; J. Hokkaido Orchid Soc. 28(Suppl.): 1 Campacci & Takase 2000 as P chapadense; Rudolf Schlechter Die Orchideen Band 1C lieferung 40 pg 2492 - 2564 Brieger 2000 as P roezlii; Caesiana 16: 40 O Gruss 2001 as P longifolium f gracile; Caesiana 16: 40 O Gruss 2001 as P longifolium f minutum; Native Ecuadorian Orchids Vol 4 Dodson 2003 photo ok; Manual de Plantas de Costa Rica Vol 3 Hammel, Grayum, Herrera and Zamora 2003 drawing good; Orchid Digest 67: 232 O Gruss 2003 as P longifolium vat chapadense; AOS Bulletin Vol 73 No 5 2004 drawing fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 74 No 10 2005 photo fide; Orquideologia Vol 24 #1 2005 photo fide; Orquideas de la Serrania del Baudo Misas Urreta 2006 drawing/photo fide; Libro Rojo de Plantas De Colombia Vol 6 Primera Parte Saenz 2007; Orchid Digest Vol 72 No 3 2008 as P longifolium f album photo fide; Orchid Species of Peru Zelenko & Bermudez 2009 photo fide; Orchids of Costa Rica Vol 1 Morales 2009 photo fide; Orquideologia Vol 28 #1 2011 photo fide; Las Orquideas del Peru Izerskyy & Bezverhov 2011 photo fide; Richardiana 16: 79 Braem 2015 as P longifolium f chapadense; Richardiana 16: 82 Braem 2015 as P longifolim f roezlii; Of Men and Orchids Part 1 Jenny 2015 photo/drawing fide; Orchid Digest Vol 80 #1 2016 photo fide; Orchid Digest Vol 80 #2 2016 photo fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 85 #7 2016 as P longifolium var lindenii photo fide; Orchidee, Taxon. Mitt. 2(5): 3 O Gruss & Koop. 2016 as P longifolium f album; Orchid Digest Vol 81 #2 2017 photo fide; Orquideas de Farallones de Cali Galindo-Tarazona, Haelterman, Zuluaga Trochez and Sebastian Moreno 2020 photo fide; Vanishing Beauty, Native Costa Rican Orchids Vol 2 Lacaena to Pteroglossa Pupulin 2020 photo fide; *Materials to the Orchid Flora of Colombia Vol 1: 72 Szlatchetko & Kolanowska 2017 drawing/photo fide;
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