Selenipedium isabelianum Barb.Rodr. 1874 Photo by Andre Cardoso and his Flickr orchid photo Website

TYPE Drawing Drawing by © Barbosa Rodrigues

Common Name Isabel's Selenipedium

Flower Size

Found from Para and Bahia states of Brazil with an erect, pubscent stem carrying, plicate, elliptic, acute leaves that blooms in the summer on a pubescent, terminal, successively single, several flowered inflorescence with many imbricate, conduplicate, acute bracts.

Synonyms Cypripedium isabelianum (Barb.Rodr.) Pucci 1891

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;

*Diario Grao Para 285: 8 8 Dec. 1874; Cypripedium: 123 Pucci 1891 as Cypripedium isabelianum

Die Orchideen Schlechter 1915;

Die Orchideen 3 Auflage Bd 1 Sonderabdruck aus Schlechter Lieferung 3 129 to 192; Brieger, Maatsch and Senghas 1984 drawing ok;

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