Orchidaceae
Paphiopedilum

Paphiopedilum tranlienianum O.Gruss & Perner

First published in Caesiana 11: 66 (1998)
This species is accepted
The native range of this species is China (SE. Yunnan) to N. Vietnam. It is a perennial or lithophyte and grows primarily in the wet tropical biome.

Descriptions

Habitat

Rocky and well-drained places in thickets; ca. 1000 m.

Distribution

SE Yunnan (Malipo) and N Vietnam.

General Description

Plants terrestrial or lithophytic. Leaves 4-6, distichous; blade abaxially light green, adaxially deep green with paler margin, narrowly oblong, 10-24 × 1.6-2.7 cm, unequally bilobulate or tridenticulate at apex. Scape suberect or arching, terminating in a flower; peduncle green, 6-15 cm, with purple-red hairs; floral bract green spotted with purple-red, ovate, 1.8-3 × 1.2-1.4 cm; pedicel and ovary 3-4 mm, densely purple pubescent. Flower 6-6.5 cm in diam.; dorsal sepal white longitudinally striped with purple-brown in basal 2/3; synsepal pale green, ± veined with purple-brown; petals and lip pale green clearly flushed and veined with purple-brown; staminode pale yellow-green, with a green umbo. Dorsal sepal suborbicular, 2.5-3.5 × 2.5-3.5 cm, minutely ciliate, basal margin recurved, apex acute; synsepal subovate, 2.2-3 × 1.7-2 cm. Petals narrowly oblong, 2.7-3.9 × 0.8-1 cm, margin strongly undulate, white ciliate, apex obtuse; lip helmet-shaped; pouch ellipsoid, 2.2-2.4 × 1.5-1.8 cm. Staminode broadly obovate, ca. 1 × 1 cm, with an umbo in lower part.

[C-EM]

Extinction risk predictions for the world's flowering plants to support their conservation (2024). Bachman, S.P., Brown, M.J.M., Leão, T.C.C., Lughadha, E.N., Walker, B.E. https://nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/nph.19592

Conservation
Predicted extinction risk: threatened. Confidence: confident
[AERP]

IUCN Red List of Threatened Species https://www.iucnredlist.org/species/191796/2003318

Conservation
CR - critically endangered
[IUCN]

Sources

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  • IUCN Categories

    • IUCN Red List of Threatened Species
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  • Kew Backbone Distributions

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  • Kew Names and Taxonomic Backbone

    • The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants 2025. Published on the Internet at http://www.ipni.org and https://powo.science.kew.org/
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