Paphinia lindeniana Rchb. f. 1887 Photo courtesy of © Lourens Grobler

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Common Name Linden's Paphinia [Belgian Orchid Gardener 1800's]

Flower Size 2" [5 cm]

Found from Venezuela, Colombia, Brazil and Peru at elevations around 100 meters as a small sized, hot growing epiphyte in lowland rainforests with clustered, elliptical, smooth pseudobulbs carrying 2 to 3 apical, ellitpic-oblong, acute to acuminate leaves with a slender, terete petiole and blooms in the spring on a pendant to 4" [10 cm] long, few to several [5 to 8] flowered inflorescence arising as a new pseudobulb growth arises.

Synonyms Lycaste lindeniana (Rchb. f.) Nichols 1888

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Venezuelan Orchids Illustrated Vol 6 Dunsterville & Garay 1976; Flora de Venezuela Foldats Volumen XV Part 4 1970; Native Colombian Orchids Vol 3 COS 1991

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