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Phragmipedium-x-brasiliense-2023-10-02 *SITF confirms this plant is Phragmipedium x brasiliense (Jan 2024).

Accepted by Kew POWO, Phrag. x brasiliense is a natural hybrid of P. lindleyanum × P. vittatum. It is described in the Orchid Digest 67: 242 (2003). There is a very good, detailed discussion of this by the co-author with Olaf Gruss, Robert Quene, in https://www.slippertalk.com/threads/phrag-brasiliense.1318/ with good photos and a reference to the original publication. This plant matches the images of P. brasiliense in the slippertalk thread.

Posted on October 02, 2023
























Judging Center: Carolinas Judging Center

Award Number: 20232438

Award Date: January 01, 0001

Awarded As: Phragmipedium x brasiliense

One pleasing flower and one bud on one upright, sequentially-flowering, 50-cm inflorescence; plant 64 cm high x 50 cm wide with five monopodial growths; leaves linear, smooth medium-green; bracts and ovary cordovan; sepals ovoid, light green, striped darker green, obverse heavily overlaid and striped cordovan; petals lanceolate, twisted, downswept, light green overlaid cordovan distally, cordovan picotee, hirsute basally, hairs red; pouch cream, overlaid light green, blushed cordovan distally, spotted cordovan proximally; staminode deltoid, light green, margins hirsute; substance firm; texture satin; awarded as Phragmipedium x brasiliense, a natural hybrid found in East Brazil.

Vendor: Orchids Limited
References: Kew & orchidspecies.com

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