Paphiopedilum charlesworthii (Rolfe) Pfitzer 1895 Subgen Paphiopedilum Sec. Paphiopedilum Karasawa & Saito 1982 Photo by © Lourens Grobler

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Common Name The Charlesworth Paphiopedilum [English Orchid Nursery]

Flower Size about 3 1/4" [8 cm]

Found in Assam India, Myanamar, Thailand, and SW China on isolated peaks at elevations of 1200 to 1600 meters in deep shade on western or northwest facing slopes where it is a cool to warm growing epiphyte growing in leaf mold on limestone rock that has linear, clear green leaves with purple spots below near base and blooms in the late summer and fall on a single flowered , pubescent, terminal, erect, to 10" [25 cm] long inflorescence covered with reddish spots and having obovate floral bracts that cover 2/3 of the ovary and a long-lasting flower.

Synonyms Cordula charlesworthii [Rolfe] Rolfe 1912; *Cypripedium charlesworthii Rolfe 1893; Cypripedium crawshayae O'Brien 1898; Paphiopedilum charlesworthii f. crawshayae (O'Brien) O.Gruss 1999; Paphiopedilum charlesworthii f. sandowiae Braem 1998

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; The Orchids of Burma Grant 1895/95 as Cypripedium charlesworthii; The Genus Paphiopedilum Vol 1 & 2 Braem 1999

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