Phragmipedium kovachii J.T.Atwood, Dalström & R.Fernández G. 2002 SECTION Micropetalum
Photos by Jay Pfahl
Photos by Lee Moore
Common Name Kovach's Phragmipedium [American Collector of Species Current]
Flower Size 7 1/4" [18 cm]
Discovered in 2002 in Peru as a large sized, cool to cold growing terrestrial orchid and since imbroiled in a CITIES hissy fit. This species may be the downfall of the orchid collector and maybe even the scientific community involved in its description. Marie Selby Gardens has been fined for it's participation in describing this species and has asked that the name be changed to P. peruvianum, a virtual impossibility because of nomenclature rules that have no directives in place to acheive it. The name stays here as in-country politics [Both Peru's and the United States] cannot affect the worldwide, scientific community's, nomenclature rules.
Found exclusively in northeastern Peru in the Dept of Amazonas at elevations of 1800 to 2200 meters as a large sized, cool to cold growing terestrial on rocky slopes with pebblely soil and rocky sand and blooms in the spring on an erect, to 3' [to 90 cm] long, successively single flowered inflorescence with up to four flowers occuring in the spring
Synonyms Phragmipedium peruvianum Christenson 2002
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; AOS Bulletin Vol 71 No 7 2002 as Phrag peruvianum photo fide; Orchid Digest Vol 66 #4 2002 photo fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 72 No 10 2003 photo fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 72 No 11 2003 photo fide; Australian Orchid Review Vol 69 No 1 2004 photo fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 73 No 1 2004 photo; AOS Bulletin Vol 73 No 2 2004 drawing fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 74 No 2 2005 photo/drawing fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 74 No 4 2005 photo fide; Orchid Digest Vol 70 #3 2006 photo fide; Orchid Digest Vol 71 No 1 2007; Orchid Digest Vol 71 No 3 2007 photo fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 76 #11 2007 photo fide; Orchid Digest Vol 72 No 3 2008 photo fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 77 No 8 2008; Orchid Species of Peru Zelenko & Bermudez 2009 photo fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 79 #1 2010 photo fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 79 #2 2010 photo fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 79 #3 2010 drawing fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 79 #8 2010 photo fide; Orquideas del Peru Freuler 2010 photo fide; Las Orquideas del Peru Izerskyy & Bezverhov 2011 photo fide; Orchid Digest Vol 76 #1 2012 photo fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 81 #6 2012 photo fide; Orchideen Series C Band 74 Thiv & Worz 2012 photo fide; Orchid Digest Vol 77 #2 2013 as Paphiopedilum kovachii photo fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 83 #4 2014 photo fide; Orchid Digest Vol 79 #2 2015 photo fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 84 #5 2015 drawing fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 84 #8 2015 photo fide; Orchid Digest Vol 80 #1 2016 photo fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 85 #1 2016 photo fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 85 #4 2016 photo fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 85 #12 2016 photo fide; Orchid Digest Vol 83 #1 2019 photo fide; Orchid Digest Vol 83 #2 2019 photo fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 88 # 6 2019 photo fide; Orchid Digest Vol 88 #4 2019 photo fide;
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