Phragmipedium longifolium [Warsc. & Rchb.f]Rolfe 1896 SECTION Lorifolia
Plant and flowers in situ Ecuador
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Common Name The Long-Leaf Phragmipedium
Flower Size 8" [20 cm]
Found from Costa Rica, Panama, Colombia and Ecuador on roadside banks and in humid arroyos at elevations of 600 to 1700 meters as a medium to large sized, warm to cool growing terrestrial or lithophyte occuring in shaded or open rocky areas with thin soil near streams or seepage areas with very short stems with imbricate, distichous, conduplicate, leaf-bearing sheaths carrying several, linear-lanceolate, dark green above, pale green below, arcuate, acuminate, conduplicate from the middle to the base leaves with the lower leaves being shorter than the rest that blooms on an erect, 24 to 36" [60 to 90 cm] long, pubescent, deep purple or green, terminal, to racemose, several flowered inflorescence that has 3 sterile, distichous, compressed, linear bracts with the 7 to 9 flowers opening in succession and occuring mostly in the fall but it is possible at almost any time of the year.
Synonyms Cypripedium dariense Rchb. f. 1878; Cypripedium hincksianum Rchb.f 1878; *Cypripedium longifolium Warsc & Rchb.f 1852; Cypripedium longifolium var. gracile H.J.Veitch ex Rolfe in ?; Cypripedium reichenbachianum hort. 1887; Cypripedium reichenbachii W. Bull 1869; Cypripedium roezlii Regel 1873; Paphiopedilum hinksianum Pfitz 1894; Paphiopedilum longifolium Pfitz 1888; Paphiopedilum longifolium var. hincksianum (Rchb.f.) Stein 1892; Phragmipedium dariense (Rchb.f.) Garay 1979; Phragmipedium hincksianum [Rchb.f] Garay 1979; Phragmipedium longifolium f. album O.Gruss & Koop. 2006; Phragmipedium longifolium f. gracile (H.J.Veitch ex Rolfe) O.Gruss 2001; Phragmipedium longifolium f. minutum O.Gruss 2001; Phragmipedium longifolium var. chapadense (Campacci & R.Takase) O.Gruss 2003; Phragmipedium longifolium var. coloratum (Rchb.f.) Pfitzer 1903; Phragmipedium longifolium var. darienense (Rchb.f.) Hallier f. 1897; Phragmipedium longifolium var. gracile (H.J.Veitch) Pfitzer 1903; ; Phragmipedium longifolium var. hincksianum (Rchb.f.) Stein 1892; Phragmipedium longifolium var. splendidum (Pucci) Pfitzer 1903; Phragmopedilum longifolium (Rchb. f. & Warsz.) Pfitzer 1898; Selenipedium dariense Rchb.f 1869; Selenipedium gracile (H.J.Veitch) Desbois 1889; Selenipedium hincksianum Rchb. f. 1878; Selenipedium longifolium Rchb.f 1854; Selenipedium reichenbachii Endres 1869;
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Xenia Orchidaceae Rchb.f 1854 drawing; Die Orchideen Schlechter 1915 as Phragmopedilum longifolium; Die Orchideen Schlechter 1915 as Phragmopedilum longifolium var coloratum; Die Orchideen Schlechter 1915 as Phragmopedilum longifolium var dariense; Die Orchideen Schlechter 1915 as Phragmopedilum longifolium var gracile; Die Orchideen Schlechter 1915 as Phragmopedilum longifolium var hinksianum; Die Orchideen Schlechter 1915 as Phragmopedilum longifolium var roezlii; Die Orchideen Schlechter 1915 as Phragmopedilum longifolium var splendidum; Atlas des Orchidees Cultivees Constantin 1920 as Selenipedium longifolium var roezlii drawing fide; Flora Brasilica Vol XII I Hoehne 1940; Flora Brasilica Vol XII I Hoehne 1940 as Phragmopedilum longifolium var roezlii drawing ok; AOS Bulletin Vol 27 No 6 1958; Encyclopedia of Cultivated Orchids Hawkes 1965; 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 37 No 3 1973 as P longifolium var roezlii photo fide; Flora of Ecuador No 9 225[1] Garay 1978 drawing fide; Icones Planetarum Tropicarum plate 202 Dodson 1980 drawing fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 50 No 8 1981 photo fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 50 No 11 1981; AOS Bulletin Vol 53 No 6 1984 photo; Orchids from The Coast Of Ecuador Arosemana, Jurado, Estrada and Konanz 1988 photo fide; Orchids Travel By Air A Pictoral Safari Mulder, Mulder-Roelfsema and Schuiteman 1990 photo fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 60 #6 1991; Native Colombian Orchids Vol 3 COS 1991 photo fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 61 No 11 1992 photo; The Manual Of Cultivated Orchid Species Bechtel, Cribb & Launert 1992 drawing/photo fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 62 No 9 1993 photo fide; Phylogeny and Classification of the Orchid Family Dressler 1993 drawing fide; photo; AOS Bulletin Vol 65 No 6 1996 as P longifolium var gracile photo fide; Rudolf Schlechter Die Orchideen Band 1C lieferung 40 pg 2492 - 2564 Brieger 2000; Rudolf Schlechter Die Orchideen Band 1C lieferung 40 pg 2492 - 2564 Brieger 2000 as P dariense; Rudolf Schlechter Die Orchideen Band 1C lieferung 40 pg 2492 - 2564 Brieger 2000 as P hincksianum; Rudolf Schlechter Die Orchideen Band 1C lieferung 40 pg 2492 - 2564 Brieger 2000 as P roezlii; Native Ecuadorian Orchids Vol 4 Dodson 2003 photo ok; Manual de Plantas de Costa Rica Vol 3 Hammel, Grayum, Herrera and Zamora 2003 drawing good; ; AOS Bulletin Vol 73 No 5 2004 drawing fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 74 No 10 2005 photo fide; Orquideologia Vol 24 #1 2005 photo fide; Orquideas de la Serrania del Baudo Misas Urreta 2006 drawing/photo fide; Libro Rojo de Plantas De Colombia Vol 6 Primera Parte Saenz 2007; Orchid Digest Vol 72 No 3 2008 as P longifolium f album photo fide; Orchid Species of Peru Zelenko & Bermudez 2009 photo fide; Orchids of Costa Rica Vol 1 Morales 2009 photo fide; Orquideologia Vol 28 #1 2011 photo fide; Las Orquideas del Peru Izerskyy & Bezverhov 2011 photo fide; Of Men and Orchids Part 1 Jenny 2015 photo/drawing fide; Orchid Digest Vol 80 #1 2016 photo fide; Orchid Digest Vol 80 #2 2016 photo fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 85 #7 2016 as P longifolium var lindenii photo fide; Orchid Digest Vol 81 #2 2017 photo fide; Orquideas de Farallones de Cali Galindo-Tarazona, Haelterman, Zuluaga Trochez and Sebastian Moreno 2020 photo fide; Vanishing Beauty, Native Costa Rican Orchids Vol 2 Lacaena to Pteroglossa Pupulin 2020 photo fide
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