Paphiopedilum purpurascens Fowlie 1974 SUBGENUS Sigmatopetalum SECTION Barbata SUBSECTION Chloroneura Photo courtesy of Jay Pfahl

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Common Name The Purple Paphiopedilum

Flower Size 1 1/2" [4.2 cm]

A small sized, hot to warm growing, multifloral Paph that has 4 to 7, narrowly oblong-elliptic, vareigated leaves and blooms on a 13 1/4" [33 cm long], few flowered, brown, pubescent inflorescence with the flowers arising in the summer.

Synonyms Paphiopedilum chamberlainianum var. flavescens Fowlie 1973; Paphiopedilum primulinum var. purpureascens (M.W. Wood) P.J. Cribb 1974

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Orchid Digest Vol 45 No 1 1981 photo not = P purpuratum; Orchid Digest Vol 49 No 1 1985 as P primulinum f purpurescens photo fide; Orchid Digest Vol 59 No 3 1995 photo fide; The Genus Paphiopetalum Vol 1 Braem 1999

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