Paphiopedilum vietnamense Gruss & Perner

국표에 없다.

Description

This has been one of the most spectacular Paphiopedilum species discovered in the last few years. This species that belongs in the parvisepalum group, is native to Vietnam, and has flowers similar to Paph. delentii, but they are larger and more deeply colored, with dark pink petals, and a dark pink to purple pouch. It also has very distinct mottled foliage. The plants that we are offering are all artificial propagated, and originated from AnTec Laboratory & Ladyslipper Farm, who were the first nursery here in the United States that was officially allowed to propagate them.

Attributes

Temperature

Intermediate-Warm

Bloom Season

Spring

Fragrant

Yes

Light Level

Low-Medium

Color(s)

Pink, Purple, White

 

Paph. vietnamense - OrchidWeb

 

• Synonyms:
  Paphiopedilum hilmari Sengas & Schettler, in Journal fur den Orchideenfreund, 6(1): 4 (1999)
  Paphiopedilum mirabile Cavestro & Chiron in Orchidees. Culture et Protection, No. 38: 31-34 (1999)
• Chromosome Count - unknown
• Described: Gruss & Perner in Die Orchidee, 50, Beiheft 5: 3-8 (1999)
• Etymology: Named for its country of origin, Vietnam.
• Varieties & Forms:
  Paphiopedilum vietnamense fma. album - albino form, yet to be officially described
• Synonyms:
  Paphiopedilum hilmari Sengas & Schettler, in Journal fur den Orchideenfreund, 6(1): 4 (1999)
  Paphiopedilum mirabile Cavestro & Chiron in Orchidees. Culture et Protection, No. 38: 31-34 (1999)
• Chromosome Count - unknown

Plant Habit

• Leaves: 3-5, 8-20 cm long, 2.5-7 cm long, above glossy, mottled greyish green and dark green, sometimes with a white margin, below keeled, spotted or flushed with purple, glabrous or sparsely white ciliated along margin at the base
• Inflorescence: 1- (rarely 2-) flowered, 15-25 cm long, purple-brown, densely white-pubescent
• Bloom: 10-12 cm wide, 8-9 cm tall
• Plant:

Habitat Data

• Distribut
• Elevation: 350-550 m
• Peak Flowering in the Wild: March
• Ecology: evergreen, wet, closed forests on highly eroded crystalline limestone mountains
• Mean Temperature Range: 14-26° C
• Light: moderately deep shade
• Medium: calcareous, lithophyte
• Water (D-drier, M-moderate, W-wetter) -

Notes:

• First collected in 1997 and illegally exported. Many thousands of plants have probably been collected. All specimens of P. vietnamense in international trade have probably originated from a single source. (Averyanov et. al 2003)

Sources:

• Averyanov, L. et al. Slipper Orchids of Vietnam. Portland, OR: Timber Press, 2003.
• Braem, Guido J., and Guy Chiron. Paphiopedilum. Saint-Genis Laval, France: Tropicalia, 2003.
• Cribb, Phillip. "512. Paphiopedilum vietnamense." Curtis's Botanical Magazine 22, no. 1 (2005): 12-18.

 

Found only in northern Vietnam as the most range restricted species in Vietnam with an area of less than 200 square miles and is a warm to cool growing lithophyte or rare terrestrial in seasonally wet, primary, evergreen, broadleafed forests on shady vertical limestone bluffs, cliffs and on tops of mountain ridges of northern and northwestern exposure at elevation of 350 to 550 meters often in mossy clumps or partially shaded rock crevices. This orchid has 3 to 5, distichous, coriaceous-leathery, ovate to oblong-elliptic, obtuse and unequally bilobed apically leaves that below are heavily violet spotted, and strongly keeled, and above with fine white to deep green tesselation. Most typical habitats are narrow shelves below overhanging bluffs and the orchid survives a 4 to 5 month dry period during the cooler winter. The erect, 1 to 2 flowered, 6" to 10" [15-25 cm] long, purple violet or purple brown with dense white or light brown haired inflorescence arising from a broadly ovate, acute, pilose, conduplicate floral bract occurs in the late winter and early spring.

Synonyms Paphiopedilum hilamari Sengh. & Schlechter 1999; Paphiopedilum mirabile Cavestro & Chiron 1999; Paphiopedilum vietnamense f. album O.Gruss & Koop. 2008

IOSPE PHOTOS (orchidspecies.com)

 

https://youtu.be/4H_05dg6ZRQ