Phragmipedium wallisii [Rchb.f]Garay 1978 SECTION Phragmidedium
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Common Name Wallis' Phragmipedium [German Orchid Collector 1800's]
Flower Size to 24" in length
Found in Colombia and Zamora-Chinchipe province of Ecuador on fully exposed cliff faces on granite rocks or lava flows at elevations of 800 to 2300 meters as a medium to just large sized, warm to cold growing, caespitose lithophyte with a short, erect stem enveloped completely by imbricate, conduplicate leaf-bearing sheaths each carrying disitchous, clustered at the base, stiff, fleshy, yellow-green, obtuse, conduplicate from the middle to the base, lorate leaves that blooms at any time of the year on an erect, 14 to 16" long, terminal, somewhat flexuous, simultaneously opening, loosely 2 to 3 flowered inflorescence with lanceolatecompressed, inflated, oblique, much shorter than the ovary floral bracts and carrying large velvety-tomentose flowers.
Distinguished from others in the genus by the stiff, erect leaves, simultaneously opening flowers and a staminode with arcuate-retrose lateral lobes and a rounded midlobe as well as a saccate lip with 2 anthers.
Synonyms Cypripedium caudatum var. wallisii (Rchb. f.) J.H. Veitch 1894; *Cypripedium wallisii Rchb.f. 1873; Paphiopedilum caudatum var. wallisii (Rchb. f.) Stein 1892; Paphiopedilum wallisii (Rchb. f.) Pfitzer 1894; Phragmipedium caudatum var. wallisii (Rchb. f.) Schltr. 1921; Phragmopedilum caudatum var. wallisii (Rchb. f.) Schltr. 1921; Selenipedium caudatum var. wallisii (Rchb. f.) Rolfe 1895; Selenipedium wallisii (Rchb.f.) Rchb.f. 1878; Selenipedium wallisii (Rchb.f.) Linden 1887;
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
Xenia Orchidaceae vol 2: 189 Rchb.f 1873 as Cypripedium wallisii drawing fide;
Xenia Orchidaceae vol 2: 189 Rchb.f 1873 as Selenipedium wallisii
Otia Botanica Hamburgensia :30 Rchb.f 1878 Selenipedium wallisii; Cypripedium: 60 Pucci 1891 as Selenipedium caudatum var. wallisii Orchid.-Buch: 460 Stein 1892 as Paphiopedilum caudatum var. wallisii Bot. Jahrb. Syst. 19: 42 Pfitzer 1894 as Paphiopedilum wallisii Man. Orchid. Pl. 4: 61 A H Kent 1894 as Cypripedium caudatum var. wallisii Pflanzenr., IV, 50(Heft 12): 53 Pfitzer 1903 as Phragmipedium caudatum var. wallisii Die Orchideen Schlechter 1915 as Phragmopedilum caudatum var wallisii; *Repert. Spec. Nov. Regni Veg. Beih. 17: 9 Schlechter 1922 Orchid Digest Vol 34 #1 1970 as P caudatum var wallisii photo fide; Orchid Digest Vol 36 No 2 1972 as P caudatum var wallisii photo fide; Orchid Digest Vol 42 No 6 1978 photo as P caudatum var wallisii; Flora of Ecuador No 9 225[1] Garay 1978 as P wallisii; AOS Bulletin Vol 50 No 11 1981 photo fide; Icones Planetarum Tropicarum plate 482 Dodson 1982 drawing fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 55 No 4 1986 photo fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 60 No 6/543 1991 photo fide; Native Colombian Orchids Vol 3 COS 1991 photo fide; Orchid Digest Vol 62 #4 1998 photo fide; Rudolf Schlechter Die Orchideen Band 1C lieferung 40 pg 2492 - 2564 Brieger 2000; AOS Bulletin Vol 72 No 3 2003 drawing fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 72 No 8 2003 photo fide; Native Ecuadorian Orchids Vol 4 Dodson 2003; Orchid Digest 69: 89 Dressler 2005 as Phragmipedium lindenii subsp. wallisii AOS Bulletin Vol 76 #12 2007 photo fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 79 #1 2010 photo fide; Orquideas del Peru Freuler 2010 as P caudatum var wallisii photo fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 80 #10 2011 as P lindenii subsp wallisii photo fide; Orquideologia Vol 29 #1 2012 photo fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 85 #6 2016 photo fide; Materials to the Orchid Flora of Colombia Vol 1: 61 Szlatchetko & Kolanowska 2017 as P wallisii drawing/photo fide;
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