Phragmipedium pearcei [Rchb.f] Rauh & Senghas 1975
Photo courtesy of © Lourens Grobler
Photo courtesy of Eric Hunt, plant grown by Dennis Westler
Photo courtesy of Jean Claude George
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Common Name Pearce's Phragmmipedium [English Orchid Collector late 1800's]
Flower Size 2" [5 cm]
A small sized, cool to warm growing, Peruvian, Colombian, Costa Rican and Ecuadorian terrestrial or lithophytic orchid often near rivers and on boulders within rivers, at elevations of 300-1200 meters. It has no psuedobulbs but it's growths are close together and have leaf fans made up of imbricating, conduplicate leaf-bearing sheaths carrying distichous, coriaceous, linear, pointed, curved 10", conduplicate from the middle to the base leaves that give rise to a terminal, stiff, erect and pubescent, 5 1/2" [14 cm] long, purple, successive opening, multiflowered inflorescence that occurs in the summer and has non fragrant flowers.
Synonyms Cypripedium caricinum Lindl. & Paxton 1850-1; Cypripedium pearcei Veitch ex J.Dix 1864; Cypripedium pearcei (Rchb. f.) hort. ex J.H. Veitch 1889; Paphiopedilum caricinum (Lindl. & Paxton) Pfitzer 1895; Paphiopedilum ecuadorense (Garay) V.A.Albert & Börge Pett. 1994; Paphiopedilum pearcei (Rchb.f.) V.A.Albert & Börge Pett. 1994; Phragmipedium caricinum (Lindl. & Paxton) Rolfe 1896; Phragmipedium ecuadorense Garay 1978; Phragmipedium pearcei var. ecuadorense (Garay) C.Cash ex O.Gruss 1994; Phragmopedilum caricinum Rolfe ex Pfitzer 1903; Selenipedium longifolium Rchb.f 1854; Selenipedium caricinum (Lindl. & Paxton) Rchb. f. 1854; *Selenipedium pearcei Rchb. f. 1866
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Flora of Ecuador No 9 225[1] Garay 1978 as P ecuadorense drawing fide; Flora of Ecuador No 9 225[1] Garay 1978; AOS Bulletin Vol 50 No 11 1981 photo fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 50 No 11 1981 as P ecuadorense photo fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 52 No 10 1983 photo fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 52 No 10 1983 as P ecuadorense photo fide; Icones Planetarum Tropicarum Series II plate 569 Dodson 1989 drawing fide; Icones Planetarum Tropicarum Series II Orchids of Peru Plate 0153 Dodson & Bennett 1989 drawing fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 60 #6 1991; AOS Bulletin Vol 60 #6 1991 as P ecuadorenseAOS Bulletin Vol 61 No 12 1992 photo fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 61 No 12 1992 as P ecuadoriense photo fide; The Manual Of Cultivated Orchid Species Bechtel, Cribb & Launert 1992 drawing fide; Orchid Australia Vol 11 No 5 1999 photo; Orchid Australia Vol 11 No 6 1999 photo; Rudolf Schlechter Die Orchideen Band 1C lieferung 40 pg 2492 - 2564 Brieger 2000; Rudolf Schlechter Die Orchideen Band 1C lieferung 40 pg 2492 - 2564 Brieger 2000 as P ecuadorense; Icones Orchidacearum Peruviarum Plate 741 Bennett & Christenson 2001 drawing fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 72 No 3 2003 photo fide; Native Ecuadorian Orchids Vol 4 Dodson 2003 drawing/photo fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 74 No 2 2005 photo fide; AOS Bulletin vol 78 No 10 2009 photo fide; AOS Bulletin vol 78 No 11 2009 photo fide; Orchid Species of Peru Zelenko & Bermudez 2009 photo fide; Mille et Une Mini Orchideees Roguenant 2009 photo fide; Orquideas del Peru Freuler 2010 photo fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 80 #6 2011 photo fide; Las Orquideas del Peru Izerskyy & Bezverhov 2011 photo fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 81 #2 2012 photo fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 81 #7 2012 photo fide; Orchid Digest Vol 80 #2 2016 photo fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 85 #5 2016 photo fide; Orchid Digest Vol 81 #3 2017 photo fide;
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