Paphiopedilum bougainvilleanum Fowlie 1971 SUBGENUS Sigmatopetalum SECTION Blepharopetalum Photo by © Lourens Grobler

Another Plant Photo by Wolfgang H. Bandisch. Photo by Mrs. Ralph Levy Copyright © 1998, 1999 All rights reserved. And his Papua & New Guinea Orchid Species site

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Common Name The Bougainville Paphiopedilum [An Island that is Part of New Guinea, just north of the Solomon Islands ]

Found on Bougainville Island in very wet montane forests at elevations of 1100 to 1850 meters as a medium sized, cool growing epiphyte on trees with their roots in leaf humus or thick moss carrying 6 to 7, narrowly elliptic, pale green tesselated darker leaves that blooms in the summer and fall on an erect, pale green, to 9 3/4" [23 cm] long, purple haired inflorescence with an elliptic floral bract that gives rise to a single flower.

Synonyms Paphiopedilum bougainvilleanum var. saskianum O.Gruss & Roeth 1999; Paphiopedilum violascens var bougainvilleanum [Fowlie ex Siles & Fowlie] Koopowitz 1995; Paphiopedilum violascens var. saskianum (O.Gruss & Roeth) Koop. 2000

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list IPNI ; Orchid Digest Vol 42 No 3 1978 photo fide; Orchid Digest Vol 44 No 3 1980 photo fide; Orchid Digest Vol 45 No 1 1981 photo fide; The Orchids of the Solomon Islands and Bougainville Lewis & Cribb 1991 photo fide; Orchid Digest Vol 59 No 3 1995 as P violascens var bougainvillianum photo fide; The Genus Paphiopedilum Vol 1 & 2 Braem 1999; Rudolf Schlechter Die Orchideen Band 1C lieferung 40 pg 2492 - 2564 Brieger 2000 ; Orchid Digest Vol 76 #4 2012 as P violascens var bougainvilleanum photo fide

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