Paphiopedilum delenatii Guillaumin 1924 SUBGENUS Parvisepalum Karasawa & Saito 1982 Photo courtesy of Jay Pfahl
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Common Name Delanat's Paphiopedilum [French Orchid Enthusiast 1900's]
Flower Size 4" [8 cm]
A small sized, southern Vietnamese terrestrial and lithophytic species with mottled leaves that grows in broadleaf, evergreen lowland forests or primary highland cloud forests on soils rich in silicates or acidic soils or mossy crevasses on eastern or southern facing granite or gneiss slopes above rivers and streams in partial shade at elevations of 750 to 1500 meters and grows well in hot to warm environments with 5 to 7, narrowly elliptic to oblong elliptic, disitichous, light green and veined and mottled dark green, purple spotted beneath, obtuse and minutely unequally trilobed apically leaves and is a late fall, winter [Most often December] to early spring bloomer with 1 or 2 [rarely 3] apical flowers on an erect, 8 3/4" [22 cm] long, pubescent, reddish inflorescence that requires less watering from January through May and water heavy from June through December , but not kept damp, and fertilizer throughout the year.
Synonyms Cypripedium delenatii [Guillame] Curtis 1933; Paphiopedilum delenatii f. albinum Braem 1998
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list IPNI ; Schlechteriana Vol 2 No 2 1991 photo; The Genus Paphiopedilum Vol 1 & 2 Braem 1999; Australian Orchid Review Vol 65 No 6 2000 photo as P delanati f albinum; AOS Bulletin Vol 10 2008 photo; Orchids of Vietnam, Illustrated survey, part 1 Averyanov 2008
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