Phragmipedium reticulatum (Rchb. f.) Garay 1978 SECTION Lorifolia
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Photo by © Lourens Grobler
Drawing by © B N Culbertson/Dodson
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Common Name The Reticulated Phragmipedium
Flower Size 5 1/2 to 6 1/2" [14 to 16 cm]
Found in Peru and Ecuador on steep embankments in very wet lower montane forests along rivers with rich, black, well drained sandy soil at elevations of 900 to 2500 meters as a robust caespitose, large sized, warm to cold growing, fan-shaped terrestrial with imbricate, disitchous, conduplicate, leaf-bearing sheaths carrying lorate, strongly distichous, dark green, conduplicate from the middle to the base leaves that blooms in the late summer and fall on a terminal, erect, somewhat flexuous, to 32" [80 cm] tall, loosely 1 to 2 flowered inflorescence with ditstantly, 4 tubular bracts and 5 inflated, navicular, acute floral bracts.
"Distinguished by the successive flowering habit, the reticulate venation on the sepals and petals and the bilobed lip." Dodson 1984
Synonyms Cypripedium reticulatum (Rchb. f.) Rchb. f. 1882; Paphiopedilum reticulatum (Rchb. f.) Pfitzer 1894; Phragmopedilum boissierianum var. reticulatum (Rchb. f.) Pfitzer 1903; Phragmopedilum reticulatum (Rchb. f.) Schltr. 1921; *Selenipedium reticulatum Rchb. f. 1874
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
Xenia Orchidaceae vol 2:223 Rchb.f 1874 as Selenipedium reticulatum;
Gard. Chron., n.s., 18: 520 Rchb.f 1882 as Cypripedium reticulatum;
Bot. Jahrb. Syst. 19: 41 Pfitzer 1894 as Paphiopedilum reticulatum;
Pflanzenr., IV, 50(Heft 12): 50 Pfitzer 1903 as Phragmipedium boissierianum var. reticulatum
Repert. Spec. Nov. Regni Veg. Beih. 8: 111 Schlechter 1921
Flora Brasilica Vol XII I Hoehne 1940 as Phragmopedilum boissierianum var reticulatum;
Flora of Ecuador No 9 225[1] Garay 1978;
Icones Planetarum Tropicarum plate 978 Dodson 1984 drawing fide;
Icones Orchidacearum Peruviarum Plate 154 Bennett & Christenson 1993 drawing fide; Rudolf Schlechter
Die Orchideen Band 1C lieferung 40 pg 2492 - 2564 Brieger 2000;
Native Ecuadorian Orchids Vol 4 Dodson 2003 photo ok;
AOS Bulletin Vol 73 #9 2004 as P bosserianum var reticulatum photo fide;
AOS Bulletin Vol 80 #6 2011 photo fide;
Las Orquideas del Peru Izerskyy & Bezverhov 2011 photo fide;
Orchid Digest Vol 80 #2 2016 photo fide;
*Materials to the Orchid Flora of Colombia Vol 1: 75 Szlatchetko & Kolanowska 2017 drawing/photo fide;
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