Phragmipedium sargentianum (Rolfe) Rolfe 1896 SECTION Platypetalum
Photo by Mauro Rosim
Drawing from Curtis's Botanical register 121 (Ser. 3 no. 51) pl. 7446 Rolfe 1895
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Common Name Sargent's Phragmipedium [American Botanist 1800's]
Flower Size 4" [to 10 cm]
Found in the coastal mountains of Brazil at elevations of 650 to 900 meters as a medium sized, warm to cool growing terrestrial in the shade of trees, in humus with constant seepage, with a very short stem carrying 7, bright green, lanceolate or oblong lanceolate, acute to acuminate leaves that blooms on a 2 to 4' [60 to 120 cm] long, erect, several to many, sequentially opening flowered, reddish purple, pubescent inflorescence occuring in the late winter and spring. Cited as a synonym of P longifolium but I have left them separate pending more information.
Synonyms Cypripedium sargentianum (Rolfe) Kraenzl. 1897; Paphiopedilum sargentianum (Rolfe) V.A.Albert & Börge Pett. 1994; Phragmipedium lindleyanum var. sargentianum (Rolfe) O.Gruss 2003; Selenipedium sargentianum Rolfe 1893
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
Orchid Rev. 1: 239 Rolfe 1893 as Selenipedium sargentianum;
Curtis's Botanical register 121 (Ser. 3 no. 51) pl. 7446 Rolfe 1895 as Selenipedium sargentianum
Curtis's Botanical register 121 (Ser. 3 no. 51) pl. 7446 Rolfe 1895 as Selenipedium sargentianum Drawing fide;
* Orchid Rev. 4: 332 Rolfe 1896; Orchid. Gen. Sp. 1: 38 Kraenzl 1897 as Cypripedium sargentianum;
Die Orchideen Schlechter 1915 as Phragmopedilum sargentianum;
Flora Brasilica Vol XII I Hoehne 1940 as Phragmopedilum sargentianum drawing ok;
Die Orchideen 3 Auflage Bd 1 Sonderabdruck aus Schlechter Lieferung 3 129 to 192;
Brieger, Maatsch and Senghas 1971;
Orchid Digest Vol 36 No 3 1972 photo fide;
Orchid Digest Vol 37 No 2 1973 photo fide;
Orchidaceae Brasilenses Band 1 Pabst & Dungs 1975 drawing fide;
as P sp photo fide; The Manual Of Cultivated Orchid Species Bechtel, Cribb & Launert 1992 drawing/photo fide; Lindleyana 9: 137 V.A.Albert & Börge Pett. 1994 as Paphiopediulum sargentianum; Rudolf Schlechter Die Orchideen Lieferung 39 2000; Orchid Digest 67: 228 O Gruss 2003 as Phragmipedium lindleyanum var. sargentianum Australian Orchid Review Vol 69 No 4: 6 2004 photo; AOS Bulletin vol 78 No 12 2009 photo fide;
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