Paphiopedilum concolor (Bateman) Pfitzer 1888 Subgen Brachypetalum Haller 1897 Photo courtesy of © Lourens Grobler

Another Clone Photo courtesy of Nik Fahmi and his Vortex Orchid Page

FragrancePart shadeWarm to Hot Springand LATE Summer

Common Name The One Colored Paphiopedilum

Flower Size to about 3" [7 cm]

This mottled leaf species can be found in Myanamar, Thailand, Laos, Cambodia, SW China, and Northern Vietnam near the ocean and along streams on limestone rocks and leaf litter in dry evergreen, broad-leafed forests as well as on limestone cliff faces as a medium-sized, hot growing terrestrial and lithophyte often in partial shade at elevations of 10 to 1000 meters with 4 to 6, distichous, elliptic-oblong, dark green with pale green tessalation and spotted purple beneath, unequally bilobed apically leaves that blooms in the spring and late summer on a single flowered [occasionally 2 to 3], erect, to 4" [10 cm] long, terminal, pubescent, dark brown inflorescence that is heavily spotted with purple and has an ovate bract and holds the pleasingly fragrant [apples] flower above the leaves.

Synonyms Cordula concolor Rolfe 1912; Cypripedium concolor Lindl. ex bateman 1865; *Cypripedium concolor Bateman. 1865; Cypripedium concolor var. chlorophyllum Rchb.f. 1886; Cypripedium concolor var. reynieri Rchb.f. 1886; Cypripedium concolor var. sulphurinum Rchb.f. 1888;Cypripedium concolor var. tonkinense God.-Leb. in ?; Cypripedium tankinense Godefroy ?; Cypripedium tonkinense Linden 1886; Paphiopedilum concolor f. sulphurinum (Rchb.f.) O.Gruss 2001; Paphiopedilum concolor subsp. chlorophyllum (Rchb.f.) Fowlie 1977; Paphiopedilum concolor subsp. reynieri (Rchb.f.) Fowlie 1977; Paphiopedilum concolor var. dahuaense Z.J.Liu & J.Yong Zhang 2000; Paphiopedilum concolor var. immaculatum Z.J.Liu & J.Yong Zhang 2000

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; The Orchids of Burma Grant 1895/95 as Cypripedium concolor

Paphiopedilum concolor (Bateman) Pfitzer 1888 var hennisianum Subgen Brachypetalum Haller 1897 Photo courtesy of Tony Walsh

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