Phragmipedium lindenii (Lindl.) Dressler & N.H. Williams 1975 SECTION Phragmidedium
Photo by Joseph Dougherty
Photo by William Cardona L of Colombia
Drawing by Dunsterville
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Common Name Linden's Phragmipedium [Belgian Orchid Collector 1800's]
Flower Size 2" [5 cm] wide / 16" [40 cm] long
Found in Venezuela, Colombia, Imbabura, Pichincha, tungurahua and Chimborazo provinces of Ecuador and Peru on roadside banks at elevations of 1200 to 2850 meters as a medium sized, cool to cold growing, caespitose, lithophyte or terrestrial with distichous, rather rigid, conduplicaet, lorate, obliquely bilobed at the obtuse apex leaves that blooms in the late fall and early winter on a terminal, erect, peduncle to 10" [25 cm] long, finely short pubescent, provided loosely 2 to 3 flowered inflorescence with glumaceous, inflated, condupliacte-cucllate, ellitic, obtuse, shorter than the pedicellate ovary floral bracts.
"Similar to P caudatum but differs in having a simple lip. From all species in the genus it differs in the lanceoalte to oblong-ovate lip base that then gradually narrowing into linear, pendent, cilaite cauda." Szlatchetko & Kolanowska 2017
Synonyms Cypripedium caudatum var. lindenii (Lindl.) J.H. Veitch 1889; Cypripedium caudatum var. uropedium Kraenzl. 1897; Cypripedium lindenii (Lindl.) Van Houtte 1870; Paphiopedilum caudatum var. lindenii (Lindl.) Brongn. ex Stein 1892; Paphiopedilum lindenii (Lindl.) Alberti & Borge Pett. 1994; Phragmipedium caudatum var. lindenii (Lindl.) Pfitzer 1903; Phragmipedium lindenii (Lindl.) Dressler & N.H. Williams 1975; Selenipedium caudatum var. lindenii (Lindl.) Chapm. 1901; Selenipedium lindenii (Lindl.) G. Nicholson 1887; *Uropedium lindenii Lindl. 1846;
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
Orchid. Linden.: 28 Lindl. 1846 as Uropedium lindenii
Ann. Gén. Hort. 18: 155 Van Houte 1870 as Cypripedium lindenii;
Ill. Dict. Gard. 3: 413 G Nicholson 1886 as Selenipedium lindenii
Man. Orchid. Pl. 4: 60 A H Kent 1889 as Cypripedium caudatum var. lindenii; Cypripedium: 56 Pucci 1891 as Selenipedium caudatum var. lindenii
Orchid.-Buch: 460 Brongn. ex Stein 1892 as Paphiopedilum caudatum var. lindenii
Pflanzenr. 12: 52 Pfitzer 1903 as Phragmipedium caudatum var. lindenii
Die Orchideen Schlechter 1915 as Phragmopedilum caudatum var lindeni;
AOS Bulletin Vol 35 No 2 1966 photo;
Flora de Venezuela Volumen 15 Parte 1 Foldats 1969;
AOS Bulletin Vol 39 No 6 1970 as P caudatum var lindeni drawing/photo fide;
* Taxon 24: 691 Dressler & N.H.Williams 1975;
Venezuelan Orchids Illustrated Vol 6 Dunsterville & Garay 1976 drawing fide;
Flora of Ecuador No 9 225[1] Garay 1978 drawing good;
Orchids of Venezuela, An Illustrated Field Guide Vol 3 Dunsterville & Garay 1979 drawing fide;
AOS Bulletin Vol 49 No 3 1980 photo fide;
AOS Bulletin Vol 50 No 11 1981;
Native Colombian Orchids Vol 3 COS 1991 photo fide;
The Manual Of Cultivated Orchid Species Bechtel, Cribb & Launert 1992 photo fide;
Lindleyana 9: 137 V.A.Albert & Börge Pett. 1994 as Paphiopedilum lindenii;
Orchid Digest Vol 59 No 4 1995 photo fide;
Orchid Digest Vol 63 #1 1999 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 7 2002 drawing fide;
Native Ecuadorian Orchids Vol 4 Dodson 2003 photo ok;
Orquideologia Vol. 23 No 2 2004 photo fide;
Australian Orchid Review Vol 69 No 6 2004/5 photo;
Orquideologia Vol 24 #2 2006 photo fide;
Orchid Species Culture: Oncidium, Bakers 2006;
Oncidium Vol 2 Koniger 2005; Orchid Digest Vol 71 No 1 2007 photo;
Libro Rojo de Plantas De Colombia Vol 6 Primera Parte Saenz 2007;
Orquideologia Vol 25 #2 2008 photo fide;
Orchid Digest Vol 71 #1 2008 photo fide;
Orchid Digest Vol 73 #4 2009 photo fide;
AOS Bulletin Vol 80 #10 2011 photo fide;
Las Orquideas del Peru Izerskyy & Bezverhov 2011 photo fide;
AOS Bulletin Vol 85 #3 2016 as Uropedium lindenii drawing fide;
AOS Bulletin Vol 85 #5 2016 drawing fide;
AOS Bulletin Vol 85 #7 2016 drawing fide;
AOS Bulletin Vol 85 #10 2016 photo fide;
*Materials to the Orchid Flora of Colombia Vol 1: 64 Szlatchetko & Kolanowska 2017 drawing/photo fide;
*Materials to the Orchid Flora of Colombia Vol 1: 64 Szlatchetko & Kolanowska 2017 drawing/photo fide;
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