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Paphiopedilum supardii Braem & Loeb

• Described: Braem & Loeb in Die Orchidee, 36(4): 142-143 (1985)
• Etymology: Named for Mr. Supard, who collected the species in the early 80's.
• Varieties & Forms: none
• Synonyms:
  Paphiopedilum devogeli Schoser & Van Deelder ex Schoser in Proceedings of the World Orchid Conference (Bangkok), (1978)
• Chromosome Count -

  2n =	metacentrics	telocentrics	n.f.
  26	26	0	52

Plant Habit

• Leaves: 7-9, 20-50 cm long, 3-6 cm wide, uniformly dark green, glossy
• Inflorescence: 3-7 flowered, 30-45 cm wide, dark purple
• Bloom: 6-8 cm wide, 8-10 cm long
  

Habitat Data

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• Elevation: 600-900 m.
• Peak Flowering in the Wild: March-June
• Ecology: fissures in limestone rocks on steep slopes
• Mean Temperature Range: 23-25°C
• Light: light-moderate shade
• Medium: calcareous, humus, leaf litter
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Notes:

• Asher (1986, p. 212): "Leaving Lawang in early July [1985], the author drove to Bogor, West Java, on his way to Padang, West Sumatra. With a brief stay in Bogor and a short visit to Herbarium Bogoriensis, the author made an interesting discovery with respect to his newly described species: a herbarium specimen with the date 1915 which appears to be identical to the plant the author dissected in Lawang and very similar to the plant described by Braem and Loeb."
• Cribb (1997, p. 168): "I found an undetermined specimen of Paph. supardii, which had been flowered in cultivation by Ader in Java in 1915, in the Bogor herbarium."
• The above two claims regarding the person who first recognized the Bogor Herbarium specimen of Paph. supardii conflict.  Cribb in the first edition of his paph monograph (1987) makes no mention of the Bogor specimen.

Sources:

• Asher, J.H. Jr. "Notes on the Genus Paphiopedilum. II. Paphiopedilum supardii Braem and Loeb, Spec. Nov.. A New Indonesian Species from Borneo." Orchid Digest 50, no. 6 (Nov/Dec 1986): 209-16.
• Braem, Guido J., and Guy Chiron. Paphiopedilum. Saint-Genis Laval, France: Tropicalia, 2003.
• Cribb, PJ. The Genus Paphiopedilum. London: RBG, Kew & Collingridge; 1987.
• -----. Slipper Orchids of Borneo. Kota Kinabalu, Malaysia: Natural History Publications, 1997.
• -----. The Genus Paphiopedilum. Kota Kinabalu, Malaysia: Natural History Publications in association with Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, 1998.
• Karasawa, K. "Karyomorphological Studies on Nine Species of Paphiopedilum." Bulletin of the Hiroshima Botanical Garden 8 (1986): 23-42.

Primary Hybrids

Paph. supardii x	Hybrid
gratrixianum	Khosey's Superglint
sukhakulii	Wössner Supsuk
adductum	Roberto Agnes
glanduliferum	Mark Eickhoff
kolopakingii	Memoria Henryk Muszner
philippinense	Ken Ichi Takaya
richardianum	Wössner Bumerang
rothschildianum	David Ott
sanderianum	Dragontale
stonei	Wössner Stonesup
glaucophyllum	Goldwespe
liemianum	Jean Briois
primulinum	Aimé Bonpland

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