Paphiopedilum bougainvilleanum Fowlie 1971 Subgen Paphiopedilum Sec. Barbata [Kranzlin] Albert & Pett. Photo by © Lourens Grobler

Another Plant Photo courtesy of 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 [A Solomon Island]

Found on Bougainville Island in very wet montane forests at elevations of 1200 to 1850 meters as a medium sized, warm to cool growing epiphyte on trees with their roots in leaf humus or thick moss carrying 6 to 7, narrowly elliptic, pale green tessaleted darker leaves that blooms in the summer and fall on an erect, pale green, to 9 3/4" [23 cm] long, purple haired inflorescence withan elliptic floral bract that gives rise to a single flower.

Synonyms Paphiopedilum violascens var bougainvilleanum [Fowlie ex Siles & Fowlie] Koopowitz 1995

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list IPNI ; The Genus Paphiopedilum Vol 1 & 2 Braem 1999

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