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Flora Data (Last Modified On 11/8/2012)

Species	PHRAGMIPEDIUM CAUDATUM (Lindl.) Rolfe
PlaceOfPublication	Orch. Rev. 4:332. 1896
Reference	Pfitz. in Engl. Pflanzenr. IV. 50 (Heft 12): 52. 1903, in synon; 'L. Wms. in Ann. Missouri Bot. Gard. 26:279. 1939.
Synonym	Cypripedium caudatum Lindl. Gen. & Sp. Orch. P1. 531. 1840. Cypripedium Humboldti Warsz. ex Reichb. f. in Bot. Zeit. 10:691. 1852. Cypripedium Warszewiezianum Reichb. f. loc. cit. 692. 1852. Paphiopedilum caudatum Pfitz. in Engl. Bot. Jahrb. 19:41. 1894; Kerch. Orch. 454. 1894. Cypripedium caudatum var. Warscewiczii Hort. in Kerch. loc. cit. 1894. Cypripedium caudatum var. roseum Hort. in Kerch. loc. cit. 1894. Phragmopedilum Warszewiczianum Schltr. in Fedde Rep. Sp. Nov. Beih. 17:9. 1922.
Description	Stems very much reduced, leafy. Leaves 15-20 cm. long, 3-5 cm. broad, lorate, obtuse, apex shallowly and unequally bilobed, coriaceous, inarticulate, glabrous. Inflorescence terminal, few-flowered, exceeding the leaves; rachis velutinous; flowers large; bracts 3-6 cm. long, obtuse, subrotund, clasping the rachis. Dorsal sepal 10-15 cm. long and 1.5-2 cm. broad at the base, lanceolate, minutely pubescent dorsally. Lateral sepals together about 8-11 cm. long and 2.5-4 cm. broad, ovate-lanceolate to lanceolate, connate to their apices. Petals 30-70 cm. long when mature, 0.5-1 cm. broad at the base, long-caudate, puberu- lent. Lip 5-6 cm. long and about 2.5-3 cm. broad in natural position, calceiform, margins involute, lateral edges of the opening pilose. Ovary velutinous.
Distribution	Panama, Venezuela (?), Colombia, Ecuador and Peru.
Specimen	CHIRIQUI: probably Volcain de Chiriqui, Warscewicz; Vicinity of Casita Alta, Volcain de Chiriqui, alt. 1500-2000 m., Woodson, Allen & Seibert 962.
Note	The description is based on the specimens collected by Woodson, Allen and Seibert. No living material was available, and the plant is difficult to describe from dried material. The form of the species in Panama is the superior horti- cultural form and for this reason has been almost exterminated there. The species is difficult to grow at sea-level.

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