Paphinia neudeckeri Jenny 1983 Photo courtesy of © Lourens Grobler

Another Clone Photo courtesy of Danny Lentz ©, plant grown by Atlanta Botanical Garden

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Common Name Neudecker's Paphinia [German Orchid Enthusiast]

Flower Size 1 1/2" [4 cm]

A small sized, hot to warm growing, caespitose epiphyte found in Colombia, Ecuador and Peru at elevations of 750 to 1200 meters, in hot wet, montane forests with an oblong, tapered, lightly complanate pseudobulb enveloped below by a few, imbricate acute, lower leafless, upper leaf-bearing sheaths with 2, apical, oblanceolate, attenuate, acute, thin, ribbed, deciduous leaves that blooma on a basal, 1 1/2" [4 cm] long, laxly pendant, 2 to 4 flowered raceme with 2 to 3 close, ovate-triangular bracts and a single triangular floral bract with fragrant [fish oil] flowers and arises with a new growth and occuring in the summer in Lima.

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Icones Orchidacearum Peruviarum Plate 344 Bennett & Christenson 1995; Native Colombian Orchids Vol 6 COS 1998;

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