Paphiopedilum malipoense S.C.Chen & Z.H.Tsi

"Paphiopedilum malipoense S.C.Chen & Z.H.Tsi is distributed in northern Vietnam and southern China. This species grows leafy limestone in a mixed semi-deciduous form to open up deciduous broad-leaved mountain cloud forests, either on steep limestone cliffs or on limestone peaks with moss and ferns. 400 to 1500 meters above sea level"

Paphiopedilum malipoense S.C.Chen & Z.H.Tsi, Acta Phytotax. Sin. 22(2): 119 (1984).

Paphiopedilum malipoense S.C.Chen & Z.H.Tsi, Photos by Ban Van Thep

Paphiopedilum malipoense S.C.Chen & Z.H.Tsi, Photos by Chu Xuan Canh

Family:

Orchidaceae.

Synonym Name: 

Paphiopedilum malipoense var. angustatum (Z.J.Liu & S.C.Chen) Z.J.Liu & S.C.Chen

Paphiopedilum malipoense var. malipoense

Vietnamese name: 

Hài Mã lị, Hài xanh.

English Name:

The Malipo Paphiopedilum (Area in China).

Chinese name: 

Ma Li Po Dou Lan - 麻栗坡兜兰.

Description: 

In partial shade as a small sized, warm to cool growing orchid with 4 to 6, distichous, coriaceous, oblong or narrowly elliptic, acute to obtuse at the asymetric apex, dark and light green mottled dark green, heavily purple spotted and keeled beneath leaves that blooms in the spring on a single (rarely 2) flowered, green spotted with purple, white hirsute, 30 to 50 cm long, inflorescence arising from a narrowly ovate-lanceolate floral bract carrying a large flower with a nice (apple-raspberry) scent

Distribution:

China South-Central, China Southeast, Vietnam (Quản Ba, Hà Giang, Na Hang, Tuyên Quang, Na Rì, Bắc Cạn, Minh Hòa, Quảng Bình).

Ecological:

Grassy slopes, humus-rich soil, rocky and well-drained places, forests and thickets in limestone areas; 400-1500 m.

Flowering times:

Blooms in the spring.

Flower size:

9 cm.

Cultivation:

SEASON: Fall, early Winter.

TEMPS: Intermediate.

WATERING: Damp but not soggy.

LIGHT:  Filtered light, no direct sun

Type:

Ref:

orchidspecies.com

ipni.org

powo.science.kew.org 

efloras.org

orchiddynasty.com