Paphiopedilum wenshanense Z.J.Liu & J.Yong Zhang, Acta Bot.
Yunnan. 22: 392 (2000).

The tag in the pot reads 'var semi-alba' 



From Flora of china


1a. Lip subglobose, ellipsoid, or ovoid, apical margin involute, usually with a rather short basal claw.

2a. Lip usually ellipsoid or ovoid, longer than broad; dorsal sepal broader than petals.

3a. Dorsal sepal and petals with a central longitudinal stripe composed of brown-red spots; staminode

with caudate apex 1.5–2 mm ..................................................................................................................... 9. P. wenshanense

3b. Dorsal sepal and petals without a central stripe as above; staminode lacking a caudate apex

as above.

4a. Flower yellowish to yellow; dorsal sepal and petals with maroon speckles 0.5–1 mm in diam. ............. 7. P. concolor

4b. Flower white or ivory, sometimes yellowish; dorsal sepal and petals with maroon spots 1.5–2 mm



in diam. ................................................................................................................................................... 8. P. bellatulum



7. Paphiopedilum concolor (Lindley ex Bateman) Pfitzer in

Engler & Prantl, Nat. Pflanzenfam. 2(6): 84. 1888.

???? tong se dou lan

Cypripedium concolor Bateman, Bot. Mag. 91: ad t. 5513.

1865; Cordula concolor (Lindley ex Bateman) Rolfe; Paphiopedilum

concolor var. dahuaense Z. J. Liu & J. Yong Zhang; P.

concolor var. immaculatum Z. J. Liu & J. Yong Zhang; P. wenshanense



Z. J. Liu & J. Yong Zhang f. album O. Gruss & Petchleung.


Plants lithophytic or terrestrial. Leaves 4–6, distichous;

blade abaxially purple or densely marked with purple speckles,

adaxially tessellated with dark and whitish or light green, oblong

or oblong-elliptic, 7–21 × 3.5–5.5(–7.5) cm, leathery,

rounded and minutely bilobulate at apex. Scape suberect or

arching, terminating in 1 or 2(or 3) flowers; peduncle green,

heavily spotted purple, 5–7(–8) cm, densely white pubescent;

floral bract green, ovate, conduplicate, 1–3(–4) × 1–2 cm,

abaxially with purple speckles and along midvein hairy, ciliate;

pedicel and ovary 3–4.5 cm, densely white pubescent. Flowers

slightly scented, 5–7 cm in diam., usually yellowish to ivorywhite

± finely spotted with purple or brown-purple throughout.

Dorsal sepal broadly ovate, 2.5–4.2 × 2.4–4.4 cm, abaxially

slightly puberulent on midvein, ciliate, apex obtuse to retuse;

synsepal similar to dorsal sepal, slightly smaller. Petals

obliquely elliptic to rhombic-elliptic, 3–5 × 1.8–3.1 cm, both

surfaces very minutely puberulent, ciliate, rounded at apex; lip

ellipsoid to ovoid, 3.5–4.5 cm; pouch 2.2–3 × 1.4–1.7 cm, outside

very minutely puberulent, apical margin incurved. Staminode

ovate to ovate-triangular, 10–12 × 8–11 mm, basal margin

sometimes minutely ciliate. Fl. May–Aug. 2n = 26.

Crevices of shaded cliffs or rocky and well-drained places in limestone

areas; 300–1400 m. W Guangxi, S Guizhou, S Yunnan [Cambodia,

Laos, Myanmar, Thailand, Vietnam].

Paphiopedilum concolor is a widespread species very variable in

leaf markings and floral morphology and coloring. Based on these variations,

many varieties were described recently, including P. concolor

var. dahuaense and P. concolor var. immaculatum from Guangxi (Acta

Bot. Yunnan. 22: 393. 2000). Paphiopedilum wenshanense f. album

(Orchidee (Hamburg) 53: 383. 2002) seems to be the same taxon as P.concolor var. dahuaense.





Paphiopedilum wenshanense Z. J. Liu & J. Yong Zhang,

Acta Bot. Yunnan. 22: 391. 2000.

???? wen shan dou lan

Paphiopedilum concobellatulum Hort.

Plants terrestrial. Leaves 4 or 5, distichous; blade abaxially

purple except for green and purple-spotted base, adaxially tessellated

with dark and pale green and somewhat mottled with

dull whitish, subelliptic, 5–10 × 3.5–4.5 cm, obtuse-rounded

and unequally bilobed at apex. Scape suberect, terminating in

1–3 flowers; peduncle green spotted with purple-brown, 2.5–

3.5 cm, pubescent; floral bracts ovate-elliptic, duplicate, 1.6–2

× 1.5–2 cm, abaxially hairy on midvein, minutely ciliate; pedicel

and ovary 4–4.5 cm, hairy. Flowers whitish or yellow-white,

5–7 cm in diam.; dorsal sepal and petals with brown-red spots

2–2.5 mm in diam., and each with a central longitudinal stripe

composed of brown-red spots; synsepal, lip, and staminode

with smaller brown-red spots. Dorsal sepal broadly ovate to

suborbicular, 2.5–3.5 × 2.5–3.5 cm, obtuse-rounded at apex;

synsepal ovate, 2–2.5 × ca. 2 cm. Petals broadly elliptic or

oblong-elliptic, 3.5–4 × 2.5–3 cm, adaxially hairy toward base;

lip ellipsoid, 3.5–4 × 2–2.5 cm, white puberulent outside, apical

margin narrowly incurved. Staminode broadly elliptic, 8–9 × 8–

9 mm, with a caudate apex 1.5–2 mm. Fl. May.

? Densely shrubby and grassy slopes in limestone areas. SE Yunnan.

Paphiopedilum
wenshanense var semialba, Award #20143409,  has been
confirmed to be Paphiopedilum wenshanense by SITF (April 2014).