Paphiopedilum praestans

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	Habit: herbaceous Height: ⇕  ? Width: ⇔ Lifespan: ⌛ perennial Origin: ✈  ? Poisonous: ☠	Exposure: ☼  ? Water: ◍  ? Features: ✓ Hardiness: ☃ Bloom: ❀ USDA Zones:  ? Sunset Zones:
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Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture

Paphiopedilum praestans, Pfitz. (Cypripedium praestans, Reichb. f. C. glanduliferum. Veitch, not Blume). Leaves strap- shaped, up to 1 ft. long and 2 1/4 in. wide: scape about equaling leaves, black-purple, pubescent, several-flowered; dorsal sepal oblong, acute, about 15-nerved, whitish, purple-lined, yellowish on back, about 2 in. long; petals yellow, about 5 in. long, twisted, cuneate-elliptic and long-attenuate from a narrow base, the undulate margins with hair-bearing warts; lip a little longer than the sepals, shining, yellow suffused red, the sac laterally compressed conic. Aug. New Guinea. L. 3:102. I.H. 34:26. Var. Kimballianum, Hort. (Cypripedium praestans var. Kimballianum, Hort.). Lines on the sepals broader; petals broader at base, densely red- lined, the warts larger; lip white, rose-suffused. New Guinea. L. 249. CH The above text is from the Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture. It may be out of date, but still contains valuable and interesting information which can be incorporated into the remainder of the article. Click on "Collapse" in the header to hide this text.

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References

• Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture, by L. H. Bailey, MacMillan Co., 1963

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