Paphiopedilum wardii Summerhayes
- Described: Summerhayes in Gardener's Chronicle, 3rd series, 92: 446 (1932)
- Etymology: Named for Frank Kingdom Ward, a British Army Captain that discovered the species in 1922.
- Varieties & Forms:
Paphiopedilum wardii fma. alboviride (Gruss & Roeth in Die Orchidee, 49(3): 141-143 (1998)) Braem in Orchidees. Culture et Protection, No. 36: 35-38 (1998)
- Synonyms: none
- Chromosome Count - from Karasawa (1986), as Paph. x wardii, concludes Paph. wardii is a natural hybrid between Paph. sukhakulii and Paph. venustum:
| 2n = |
metacentrics |
telocentrics |
n.f. |
| 41 |
12 |
29 |
53 |
- Chromosome Count - from Atwood (1984):
| 2n = |
metacentrics |
telocentrics |
n.f. |
| 44 |
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- |
Plant Habit
- Leaves: 3-5, up to 17 cm long, 5-6 cm wide, above mottled blue-green and pale green, below purple-spotted
- Inflorescence: 1-flowered, 20-45 cm long, purple, densely pubescent
- Bloom: 8-13 cm wide
- Plant:
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| crown |
Habitat Data
- Distribution -
- Elevation: 1200-1500 m
- Peak Flowering in the Wild: ?
- Ecology: forest floor at the base of trees, sometimes on mossy cliff faces
- Mean Temperature Range: 12-22°C
- Light: light shade
- Medium: deep leaf litter, mosses
- Water (D-drier, M-moderate, W-wetter) -
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Sources:
- Atwood, J.T. Jr. "The Relationships of the Slipper Orchids (Subfamily Cypripedioideae, Orchidaceae)." Selbyana 7, no. 2/4 (Aug 1984): 129-247.
- Braem, Guido J., and Guy Chiron. Paphiopedilum. Saint-Genis Laval, France: Tropicalia, 2003.
- Cribb, Phillip J. The Genus Paphiopedilum. Kota Kinabalu, Malaysia: Natural History Publications in association with Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, 1998.
- Gruss, O. "Albino Forms of the Slipper Orchids." Orchid Digest 69, no. 4 (Oct/Dec 2005): 204-29.
- Karasawa, K. "Karyomorphological Studies on Nine Species of Paphiopedilum." Bulletin of the Hiroshima Botanical Garden 8 (1986): 23-42.
Primary Hybrids
| Paph. wardii x |
Hybrid |
| delenatii |
Tim VanRooy |
| bellatulum |
Black Jaguar |
| concolor |
Morse Horse |
| druryi |
Roch Jolibois |
| fairrieanum |
Julia Bell |
| gratrixianum |
Jenny Rhode |
| henryanum |
Aleksandra Szlachetko |
| villosum |
Shutdown |
| appletonianum |
Debbie Robinson |
| argus |
Darth Vader |
| barbatum |
Pleasantry |
| bullenianum |
David Makana Quarles |
| callosum |
Pierre Bertaux |
| dayanum |
Diana Ward |
| javanicum |
Borobudur |
| lawrenceanum |
Starry Sky |
| purpuratum |
Dale Edward Lawless |
| sukhakulii |
Saiun |
| superbiens |
Thank Frank |
| tonsum |
Bryce |
| venustum |
Varuna |
| virens |
Ovidius |
| adductum |
Wössner Braunbär |
| lowii |
Aaron Poock |
| philippinense |
Happy Philipin |
| rothschildianum |
Garnet Crown |
| glaucophyllum |
Carol |
| primulinum |
Quissett |
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