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Paphiopedilum bougainvillianum is an orchid species name for which no taxonomic record was found. Culture information and photos for this orchid are commonly detailed under the currently accepted name of Paphiopedilum violascens.
ORIGIN: Found on Bougainville Island in very wet montane forests at elevations of 1100 to 1850 meters.
DESCRIPTION: Medium sized, cool growing epiphyte on trees with their roots in leaf humus or thick moss carrying 6 to 7, narrowly elliptic, pale green tesselated darker leaves that blooms in the summer and fall on an erect, pale green, to 9 3/4 [23 cm] long, purple haired inflorescence with an elliptic floral bract that gives rise to a single flower.
-- information provided by Jay Pfahl, author of the
Internet Orchid Species Encyclopedia (IOSPE).
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