Paphiopedilum spicerianum [Rchb.f]Pfitz. 1888 SUBGENUS Paphiopedilum SECTION Thiopetalum Photo courtesy of Jay Pfahl

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Common Name Spicer's Paphiopedilum [English Officer in India 1800's]

Flower Size to 3" [6 to 8 cm]

This smaller sized, terrrestrial or sometimes lithophytic species has 5 oblong, clear, dull green leaves that are mottled purple below and is from the Assam region of India, the eastern Himalayas, Bhutan and Myanamar as well as Yunnan China at elevations of 1000 to 2000 meters and is a small sized, cold to warm growing plant that flowers from autumn till winter with an erect, multiflowered, sequential blooming, slender, purple 9 to 16" [20 to 40 cm] long, inflorescence with ovate, acute bracts and needs shade with no winter rest.

Synonyms Cordula spiceriana [Rchb.f] Rolfe 1912; *Cypripedium spicerianum Rchb.f 1879; Paphiopedilum spicerianum f. immaculatum Braem 1999

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; AOS Bulletin Vol 39 No 2 1970 photo; Orchid Digest Vol 44 No 6 1980 photo; Orchids of Bhutan Pearce & Cribb 2002; Wild Orchids in Myanamar Vol 2 Tanaka 2004; AOS Bulletin Vol 75 No 1 2006 photo; Wild Orchids in Myanamar Vol 3 Tanaka 2007;

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