Paphiopedilum lowii (Lindl.) Stein 1892 SUBGENUS Paphiopedilum SECTION Pardalopetalum
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Plant in situ on cliffwall Mulu NP Borneo
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Common Name Low's Paphiopedilum [English Orchid Enthusiast 1800's]
Flower Size 3 to 5 3/4" [7.5 to 14 cm]
Found in Malaysia, Sumatra, Java, Sulawesi and Borneo within lowland forests on humus-filled hollows of limestone rocks and boulders in leaf detrius, terrestrial in grasslands with scrub or rarely lithophytic species at altitudes of 200 to 1700 meters as a medium sized, hot to cool growing, multiflowered lithophyte with 4 to 6, linear to narrowly elliptic, fleshy, clear dark green leaves that blooms in the spring and summer on a terminal, erect to arching, 25 to 40" [62 to 100 cm] long, nodding, green mottled purple, pubescent, successively 1 to 2, 2 to 7 flowered inflorescence with elliptic, yellow marked with purple, pubescent floral bracts that are 1/3 the length of the ovaries.
Synonyms Cordula lowiana [Lindley] Rolfe 1912 ; Cypripedium cruciforme Zoll. & Morel 1854; *Cypripedium lowii Lindl. 1847; Paphiopedilum lowii f. aureum (P.J.Cribb) P.J.Cribb 1997; Paphiopedilum lowii var. aureum P.J.Cribb 1990; Paphiopedilum lowii var. lynniae (Garay) O.Gruss & Roeth 1997; Paphiopedilum lynniae Garay 1996
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Bonplandia Rchb.f 1856 as Cypripedium lowii; Bonplandia Rchb.f 1857 as Cypripedium lowii; Die Orchideen Von Java J.J.Smith 1905; Die Orchideen Von Java Figuren Atlas J.J.Sm. 1908 drawing fide; Studies in the Family Orchidaceae Fascile 2 Ames 1908; Die Orchideen Schlechter 1915; Die Orchideen Schlechter 1915 as P lowii var cruciforme; Atlas des Orchidees Cultivees Constantin 1920 as Cypripedium lowii drawing fide; Flora of Malaya Vol 1 Holttum 1957 drawing fide; Encyclopedia of Cultivated Orchids Hawkes 1965; Orchid Digest Vol 34 #3 1970 photo fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 39 No 2 1970 photo fide; Die Orchideen 3 Auflage Bd 1 Sonderabdruck aus Schlechter Lieferung 3 129 to 192; Brieger, Maatsch and Senghas 1971 drawing fide; Orchid Digest Vol 37 no 1 1973 as P lowii ssp malayensis photo fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 49 No 3 1980 photo fide; Orchid Digest Vol 44 no 6 1980 photo fide; Orchid Digest Vol 45 No 3 1981 photo fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 51 No 10 1982 Photo good; Orchid Digest Vol 48 No 5 1984 photo fide; Orchids of Java Comber 1990 photo fide; Orchid Digest Vol 55 No 2 1991 photo fide; The Orchids of Penninsular Mayasia and Singapore Seidenfaden & wood 1992 drawing fide; The Manual Of Cultivated Orchid Species Bechtel, Cribb & Launert 1992 photo fide; The Plants of Mount Kinabalu Vol 2 Orchids Beaman, Wood, Beaman & Beaman 1993 photo fide; A Checklist of the Orchids of Borneo Wood & Cribb 1994 drawing fide; Orchid Digest Vol 59 No 3 1995 photo fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 66 No 10 1997 as P lynniae photo fide; Orchids of Borneo Wood Vol 3 1997 drawing/photo fide; The Genus Paphiopedilum vol 1 Braem 1998; AOS Bulletin Vol 69 No 1 2000 photo fide; Oasis Vol 1 No 3 2000 photo; Rudolf Schlechter Die Orchideen Band 1C lieferung 40 pg 2492 - 2564 Brieger 2000; Rudolf Schlechter Die Orchideen Band 1C lieferung 40 pg 2492 - 2564 Brieger 2000 as P lynniae; Orchids of Sumatra Comber 2001 photo fide; A to Z of South East Asian Orchid Species Vol 1 O'Byrne 2001 photo fide; Orchids of Sarawak Beeman & Wood 2001 photo fide; Orchids of Sarawak Beaman, Wood & Beaman etal 2001 as P lowii vvar aureum; Lindleyana Vol 17 No 1 2002; AOS Bulletin Vol 72 No 1 2003 drawing fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 75 No 3 2006 photo fide; Orchid Digest Vol 77 No 1 2008 photo fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 77 No 6 2008 photo fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 78 #6 2009 photo fide; Malesian Orchid Journal Vol 3 2009 photo/drawing fide; Wild Orchids of the Cameron Highlands REACH 2009 photo fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 79 #4 2010 photo fide; The Orchids of Mount Kinabalu Vol 1 Wood, Beaman, Lamb, Chu Lun and Beaman 2011 photo ok; The Orchids of Mount Kinabalu Vol 2 Wood, Beaman, Lamb, Chu Lun and Beaman 2011 drawing fide; Wild Orchids of Penninsular Malaysia Ong, O'Byrne, Yong & Saw 2011 photo fide; Orchid Digest Vol 76 #4 2012 photo fide; Orchid Digest Vol 76 #1 2012 photo fide; Orchid Digest Vol 76 #4 2012 as P lynniae photo fide; Orchid Digest Vol 79 #1 2015 drawing/photo fide; Orchid Digest Vol 79 #1 2015 as P lowii var lynniae photo fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 86 #5 2017 photo fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 86 #2 2017 drawing fide; Orchid Digest Vol 82 #2 2018 Photo fide; Orchid Digest Vol 82 #2 2018 as P lowii var flavum Photo fide; Orchid Digest Vol 83 #1 2019; AOS Bulletin Vol 88 #4 2019 photo fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 88 #6 2019 photo fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 88 #8 2019 photo fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 89 #11 2020 photo fide;
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