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Orchid Species: Phragmipedium pearcei

(This name is currently accepted by Kew.)

Phragmipedium pearcei is an orchid species identified by (Veitch ex J.Dix) Rauh & Senghas in 1975.
Genus
Phragmipedium (Phrag.)
Grex
pearcei
(name currently accepted by Kew)
Parents
Species
Author
(Veitch ex J.Dix) Rauh & Senghas
Year
1975
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ORIGIN: Peruvian, Colombian, Costa Rican and Ecuadorian terrestrial or lithophytic orchid often near rivers and on boulders within rivers, at elevations of 300-1200 meters.

DESCRIPTION: Small sized, cool to warm growing. It has no pseudobulbs 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.

FLOWER SIZE: 2 inches [5 cm] -- information provided by Jay Pfahl, author of the Internet Orchid Species Encyclopedia (IOSPE).
Other Names
Genus Name Genus Grex Name Year Author
Add+ Phragmipedium Phrag ecuadorense 1978 Garay
Add+ Cypripedium Cyp pearcei 1864 Veitch ex J.Dix
Add+ Paphiopedilum Paph pearcei 1994 (Veitch ex J.Dix) V.A.Albert & Börge Pett.
Add+ Selenipedium Sel pearcei 1865 (Veitch ex J.Dix) Rchb.f.
Add+ Paphiopedilum Paph ecuadorense 1994 (Garay) V.A.Albert & Börge Pett.
Add+ Phragmipedium Phrag paercei
Most awarded/recent cultivars: Phrag. ecuadorense 'Twisted Sisters' (2000) Phrag. ecuadorense 'Robert Vance' (1995) Phrag. ecuadorense 'Chestnut' (1992) Phrag. ecuadorense 'Rosanna' (1990) Phrag. ecuadorense 'Joe Koss' (1990) Phrag. ecuadorense 'Birchwood' (1988) Phrag. ecuadorense 'Bettylee' (1986) Phrag. ecuadorense 'Jean' (1985)
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