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Orchid Species: Selenipedium warszewiczianum

Kew currently accepted name is Phragmipedium humboldtii

Selenipedium warszewiczianum is an orchid species identified by (Rchb.f.) Rchb.f. & Warsz. in 1854. Culture information and photos for this orchid are commonly detailed under the currently accepted name of Phragmipedium humboldtii.
Genus
Selenipedium (Sel.)
Grex
warszewiczianum
Parents
Species
Author
(Rchb.f.) Rchb.f. & Warsz.
Year
1854
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ORIGIN: Found from Mexico, Guatemala, Panama, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru and Venezuela, this large sized species is a robust, caespitose, fan-shaped, cool to warm growing lithophyte, terrestrial or epiphyte with no pseudobulbs of open, fully exposed, grassy slopes, cliff faces, or humus soil at elevations of 800 to 2500 meters.

DESCRIPTION: This large sized species is a robust, caespitose, fan-shaped, cool to warm growing lithophyte, terrestrial or epiphyte with no pseudobulbs and imbricate, conduplicate leaf-bearing sheaths carrying ligulate, leathery, distichous, 3 to 4 pairs, basally imbricating, glabrous, dark green conduplicate below into the base leaves and blooms from winter through summer with long lasting, simultaneously opening flowers on a sub-erect, terminal, to 2' [60 cm] long, 3 to 6 flowered, racemose inflorescence that is just longer than the leaves and has a large leafy basal bract and several prominent tubular bracts.

FLOWER SIZE: 2 1/2 feet with the long petals [to 75 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 exstaminodium 1984 Castaño, Hágsater & E.Aguirre
Add+ Phragmipedium Phrag monstruosum 1999 Archila
Add+ Phragmipedium Phrag triandrum 1999 Archila
Add+ Phragmipedium Phrag humboldtii 1999 (Warsz.) J.T.Atwood & Dressler
Add+ Phragmipedium Phrag warszewiczii 2006 (Rchb.f.) Christenson
Add+ Paphiopedilum Paph wallisii 1894 (Rchb.f.) Pfitzer
Add+ Paphiopedilum Paph warszewiczianum 1894 (Rchb.f.) Pfitzer
Add+ Phragmipedium Phrag popowii 2004 Braem
Add+ Phragmipedium Phrag warscewiczii 2006 (Rchb.f.) Christenson
Add+ Selenipedium Sel wallisii 1873 Rchb.f.
Add+ Selenipedium Sel warszewiczii 1873 Rchb.f.
Add+ Cypripedium Cyp humboldtii 1852 Warsz.
Add+ Paphiopedilum Paph exstaminodium 1994 (Castaño, Hágsater & E.Aguirre) V.A.Albert & Börge Pett.
Add+ Selenipedium Sel warscewiczii 1873 Rchb.f.
Most awarded/recent cultivars: Phrag. caudatum 'Franz' (5 awards from 2015 to 2018) Phrag. caudatum 'Dark Star' (4 awards from 1999 to 2007) Phrag. caudatum 'Charlotte' (3 awards from 2013 to 2016) Phrag. caudatum 'Fredensborg' (3 awards from 2012 to 2014) Phrag. caudatum 'Siebenthal' (3 awards from 1976 to 1978) Phrag. caudatum 'Jacqui's Dream' (2 awards in 2017) Phrag. caudatum 'Ingrid' (2 awards from 2009 to 2012) Phrag. caudatum 'Nadine's 'WOW'' (2 awards in 2012) Phrag. caudatum 'Monsoon Waterfall' (2 awards in 2007) Phrag. caudatum h.v. giganteum 'Abby' (2 awards in 2007) Phrag. caudatum h.f. sanderae 'Ronald Ciesinski' (2 awards in 2006) Phrag. caudatum 'Queenscliff' (2 awards in 2004) Phrag. caudatum 'Kingston' (2 awards in 2003) Phrag. caudatum 'Mem. Tess McMillan' (2 awards in 2003) Phrag. caudatum h.v. sanderae 'Tejas' (2 awards in 2002) Phrag. caudatum h.v. sanderae 'Matilda' (2 awards in 2000) Phrag. caudatum 'Bob's Baby' (2 awards from 1995 to 1999) Phrag. caudatum 'Regal Bearing' (2 awards from 1974 to 1996) Phrag. caudatum 'Von Weltz' (2 awards in 1990) Phrag. caudatum h.v. sanderae 'Equanimity' (2 awards in 1990)
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