Selenipedium palmifolium (Lindl.) Rchb. f. 1854
Photo by © Patricia Harding
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Common Name The Palm-Leaf Selenipedium
Flower Size 2 to 2.8" [5 to 7 cm]
Found in Trinidad, Venezuela, Guyana, and Brazil evergreen forests often near marshy areas at elevations of sea level to 400 meters as a very large, hot to warm growing terrestrial found in poor acidic soil and medium shade with a terete, occasionally branching, densly and coarsely glandular-hairy stems carrying narrowly oblong to narrowly elliptic, glabrous above, sparsely pubescent below, acute leaves and blooms in the fall on a terminal, erect, to 8" [to 20 cm] long, few to several successively flowered inflorescence with broadly lanceolate, glandular-hairy floral bracts with never more than one flower at a time all occuring over several months.
Synonyms *Cypripedium palmifolium Lindl. 1840
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; *Xenia Orchidaceae Rchb.f 1854 drawing; Die Orchideen Schlechter 1915; Flora Brasilica Vol XII I Hoehne 1940 drawing fide; Iconografia de Orchidaceae Do Brasil Hoehne 1949 drawing fide; Native Orchids of Trinidad Schultes 1960; Encyclopedia of Cultivated Orchids Hawkes 1965; Flora de Venezuela Foldats Volumen XV Part 1 1969 drawing fide; Die Orchideen 3 Auflage Bd 1 Sonderabdruck aus Schlechter Lieferung 3 129 to 192; Brieger, Maatsch and Senghas 1971 drawing; Orchidaceae Brasilenses Band 1 Pabst & Dungs 1975 drawing fide; The Manual Of Cultivated Orchid Species Bechtel, Cribb & Launert 1992 drawing fide; Boletim CAOB Vol 50 2003; Flora of the Venezuelan Guayana Vol 7 Steyermark, Berry, Yatskievych and Holst 2003; AOS Bulletin Vol 80 #8 2011 photo fide;
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