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Type: Correspondence
Published: 2017-10-06
Page range: 97–100
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Paphiopedilum myanmaricum, a new species of slipper orchid (Cypripedioideae, Orchidaceae)

Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of California, Irvine, CA 92697
59 Soi Onnuch19, Suanluang, Bangkok, Thailand 10250
111 Kongkiat Road, Mueang, Prachuap Khiri Khan, Thailand 77000
Paphiopedilum Myanmar southeast Asia orchidaceae Monocots

Abstract

A distinctively different and new species of Paphiopedilum Pfitzer belonging to subgenus Brachypetalum (Hallier) Pfitzer is described from Myanmar. Cribb (1998) enumerates only four species. Since then Govaerts & Cribb (2017) itemize seven species with an additional two varieties. This subgenus is confined to mainland South-east Asia extending from Thailand and Malaysia into Indochina and south-east China. It is not surprising, then that an additional species should also be found in neighboring Myanmar.