The December 2008 'Lankesteriana' published the description for Phragmipedium manzurii, native to the Department of Santander According to the article this time the taxonomist ( Paula Viveros) travelled to Colombia in order to identify the orchid, instead of the other way around, *G*!
Here's a link to Patricia Harding's picture on Jay Pfahl's Orchid Species Encyclopedia. Kinda cute, doncha think? Two toned.
Phrag. manzurii is in the Micropetalum section of Phragmipedium
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That is kinda cute...looks like a variation on a theme of Phrag schlimii. Good story too ;-)
ReplyDeleteThanks for the post ! ! !
I should have posted the description/sizes:
ReplyDeleteFlowers 3, successive, resupinate 6x5.2cm. Sepals yellow-green, elliptical, somewhat concave, pubescent on reverse; dorsal sepal elliptical, 2 cm long, 1-1.5cm wide. Petals white, flushed with pale violet, elliptical, slightly recurved, hirsute pubescent, 2.2-2.8cm long, 1.1-2cm wide. Lip white flushed pale violet, yellow-green at base, with violet markings, saccate with apex turned up in front and the margin infolded, opening marked with short violet ridges, interior marked with violet spots, central yellow/violet lines on interior, tomentose pubescent, 1.8-2.4cm long, 1-1.7cm wide. Staminode green-yellow, round,raised center, notched on bottom margin, tomentose pubescent, 0.6-0.8 long, 0.6-0.8 wide.
Same section as schlimii.