Paphiopedilum delenatii Guillaumin 1924 SUBGENUS Parvisepalum Karasawa & Saito 1982
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Common Name Delanat's Paphiopedilum [French Orchid Enthusiast 1900's] - In China De Shi Dou Lan
Flower Size 4" [8 cm]
Found in northern Guangxi and southeastern Yunnan provinces of China and Vietnam in broadleaf, evergreen lowland forests or primary highland cloud forests on soils rich in silicates or acidic soils or mossy crevasses on eastern or southern facing granite or gneiss slopes above rivers and streams in partial shade at elevations of 750 to 1500 meters as a small sized, warm to cool growing terrestrial and lithophytic species with 5 to 7, narrowly elliptic to oblong elliptic, distichous, light green and veined and mottled dark green, purple spotted beneath, obtuse and minutely unequally trilobed apically leaves that blooms in the late fall, winter [Most often December] to early spring bloomer with 1 or 2 [rarely 3] apical, fragrant lemon-honey scented flowers on an erect, 8 3/4" [22 cm] long, densely white hirsute, reddish inflorescence with pale green spotted with purple brown, ovate, conduplicate, abaxially hairy, shorter than the ovary floral bract.
This orchid species requires less watering from January through May and water heavy from June through December, but not kept damp, and even fertilizer throughout the year.
Synonyms Cypripedium delenatii [Guillame] Curtis 1933; Paphiopedilum delenatii f. albinum Braem 1998; Paphiopedilum delenatii f. lutescens Grell & Gunzenh. 2010; Paphiopedilum delenatii f. vinicolor O.Gruss & Roeth 2007
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; AOS Bulletin Vol 32 No 3 1963 as Cypripedium delanati photo fide;AOS Bulletin Vol 32 No 7 1963 sa Cypripedium delanati photo fide; Orchid Digest Vol 34 #8 1970 photo fide; Die Orchideen 3 Auflage Bd 1 Sonderabdruck aus Schlechter Lieferung 3 129 to 192; Brieger, Maatsch and Senghas 1971; Orchid Digest Vol 36 No 2 1972 photo fide; Orchid Digest Vol 36 No 3 1972 photo fide; Orchid Digest Vol 37 No 4 1973 photo fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 47 No 9 1978 photo fide; Orchid Digest Vol 44 No 5 1980 photo fide; Orchid Digest Vol 48 No 3 1984 photo fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 55 No 7 1986 photo fide; Orchid Digest Vol 51 No 2 1987 photo fide; Schlechteriana Vol 2 No 2 1991 photo fide; Orchid DIgest Vol 56 No 1 1992 photo fide; The Manual Of Cultivated Orchid Species Bechtel, Cribb & Launert 1992 photo fide; Orchid Digest Vol 58 No 2 1994 drawing/photo fide; Identification of the Orchids [Orchidaceae Juss.] Vietnam Averyanov 1994; Orchid Digest Vol 59 No 3 1995 photo fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 65 # 12 1996 photo fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 68 #1 1999 photo fide; The Genus Paphiopedilum Vol 1 & 2 Braem 1999; Australian Orchid Review Vol 65 No 6 2000 photo as P delanati f albinum; Rudolf Schlechter Die Orchideen Band 1C lieferung 40 pg 2492 - 2564 Brieger 2000; AOS Bulletin Vol 72 No 6 2003 photo fide; Australian Orchid Review Vol 70 No 4 2005 as P delanati f album; AOS Bulletin Vol 10 2008 photo fide; Orchids of Vietnam, Illustrated survey, part 1 Averyanov 2008; Flora of China Vol 25 Zhengyi, Raven & Deyuan 2009; Flora of China Vol 25 Illustrations Zhengyi, Raven & Deyuan 2010 drawing fide; The Wild Orchids in Yunnan Xu Xiang Ye & Liu 2010 photo fide; A to Z of South East Asian Orchid Species Vol 2 O'Byrne 2011 photo fide; Orchid Digest Vol 76 #1 2012 photo fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 81 #9 2012 photo fide; Orchid Digest Vol 76 #4 2012 photo fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 84 #10 2015 P delanati f albinum photo fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 85 #4 2016 as P delanati f albinum photo fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 85 #5 2016 photo fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 85 #5 2016 as P delanati f albinum photo fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 85 #7 2016 photo fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 85 #9 2016 as P delanati f albinum photo fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 85 #10 2016 as P delanati f albinum photo fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 87 #1 2018 as P delanati f vinicolor photo fide; Orchid Digest Vol 82 #1 2018 photo fide; Orchid Digest Vol 82 #1 2018 as P delanati f vinicolor photo fide; Orchid Digest Vol 82 #1 2018 as P delanatii f albinum photo fide; Orchid Digest Vol 80 #2 2016; AOS Bulletin Vol 86 #2 2017 photo fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 86 #4 2017 photo fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 88 #5 2019 as P delanati f albinum photo fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 88 #5 2019 photo fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 88 #7 2019 as P delanati f vinicolor photo fide; Atlas of Native Orchids of China Vol 1 Jin Xiaohua, Li Jianwu and Ye Deping 2019 photo fide
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