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Parish's Paphiopedilum

Paphiopedilum parishii

Parish's Paphiopedilum
Photo: Lemaire, Charles Antoine, Public domain
Family
Orchidaceae (Orchid family)
Grows as
Tree, Epiphyte, Orchid
Native range
Assam to China (S. & SW. Yunnan)
Climate
wet tropical

About

Paphiopedilum parishii is a species of orchid found in northern and western Thailand, Laos, Myanmar, Yunnan and Assam, in montane forests at 1200–2200 m above sea level. It is named after Charles Samuel Pollock Parish, an English botanist and avid plant collector who had a particular interest in the flora of Myanmar (then Burma).

Plants in this species are described as being epiphytes or lithophytes. They grow in thick moss which occurs on boulders or on the tree branches of Terminalia in humid and shady broad-leaved forests, making them facultative lithophytes.

Other Paphiopedilum plants

Pointed Tooth Paphiopedilum · Paphiopedilum adductum · Appleton's Paphiopedilum · Argus Paphiopedilum · Golden slipper orchid · Bearded Paphiopedilum · Beard carrying Paphiopedilum · Egg-in-a-nest orchid · Bougainville Paphiopedilum · Bullen's Paphiopedilum · Callus Paphiopedilum · Paphiopedilum subg. Megastaminodium

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Paphiopedilum parishii by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts are shared under the same licence.

Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.

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