Paphiopedilum insigne


fma. insigne	fma. sanderae	fma. sanderianum

Paphiopedilum insigne (Wallich ex Lindley) Pfitzer

Described: Wallich ex Lindley in Collectanea Botanica, t. 32 (1821)
Transferred: Pfitzer in Morphologische Studien uber die Orchideenbluthe, 11 (1886)
Etymology: Derived from the latin insigne, meaning 'badge of honor'; named for the striking nature of the flower.
Varieties & Forms:
Paphiopedilum insigne fma. sanderae (Reichenbach fil. in Gardener's Chronicle, 3rd series, 4(103): 692-693 (1888)) Gruss et Roeth in Caesiana 12: 62 (1999) - near-albino form with dots on the dorsal sepal and/or red hairs at the bases of the petals and sepals
Paphiopedilum insigne fma. sanderianum (Rolfe in Orchid Review, 1(5): 145 (1893)) Gruss et Roeth in Caesiana 12: 62 (1999) - albino form
Synonyms: none
Chromosome Count -

2n = metacentrics telocentrics n.f.

26 26 0 52

Leaves: 5-6, up to 32 cm long, 3 cm wide, above green, below spotted purple at the base
Inflorescence: 1-flowered, up to 25 cm long, green, shortly purple-pubescent
Bloom: 7-12 cm wide, extremely variable
Plant:
fma. insigne

fma. sanderae

fma. sanderianum

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From Karasawa 1978: "P. insigne cv. 'Harefield Hall' was the same colored form as the wild clones, but was 1.3 to 1.7 times as large as in size the wild clones. This cultivar showed the chromosome number of 2n=39 and the karyotype which consisted of morphologically 13 sets of each three matched chromosome, and which contained morphologically highly similar chromosomes to that of the diploid wild clones. Additionally, the seedlings of this cultivar yield quantitatively quite a similar flower to those of the wild clones P. insigne (Adams 1954). Thus, it can be speculated that P. insigne cv. 'Harefield Hall' might be autotriploid."

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 the Intraspecific Variation of Paphiopedilum Insigne." La Kromosomo 2-9 (Apr 1978): 233-55.
Karasawa, K. "Karyomorphological Studies in Paphiopedilum, Orchidaceae." Bulletin of the Hiroshima Botanical Garden 2 (Mar 1979): 1979.

Paph. insigne x	Hybrid
bellatulum	Helen II
concolor	Orion
godefroyae	Dowlingianum(1902), Dowleri(1902)
niveum	Venus
boxallii	Monsieur de Curte
charlesworthii	Elmireanum(1899), Hitchinsiae(1899)
druryi	Aeson
exul	Robinsonii
fairrieanum	Arthurianum
hirsutissimum	Alcides
spicerianum	Leeanum
villosum	Nitens
appletonianum	Baptiste L'homme
argus	Swinburnei
barbatum	Ashburtoniae
bullenianum	Corbeillense
callosum	Leoniae
ciliolare	Alfred Bleu
curtisii	Miniatum
dayanum	Mademoiselle Madeline Gayot
hookerae	Echo
javanicum	Javanico-Insigne
lawrenceanum	Umlauftianum
mastersianum	Albanense
purpuratum	Regale
sukhakulii	Tatonka
superbiens	Thorntonii
tonsum	Krishna
venustum	Crossianum
violascens	Jean-Pierre Lepabic
haynaldianum	Pelias
lowii	Rossii
rothschildianum	Ingens
stonei	Lauretta May
chamberlainianum	Miss Louisa Fowler
glaucophyllum	Glauc-insigne
primulinum	Lady Light
victoria-regina	Rogeri

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