Phragmipedium Descriptions and Transfers

Gruss, O. "A Checklist of the Genus Phragmipedium." Orchid Digest 69, no. 4 (Oct/Dec 2003): 214-41.

Section Species - Current Status var. / fma. - Current Status Original Description Transferred To Current Status
Phragmipedium caudatum Lindley in Genera and Species of Orchidaceous Plants, 531 (1840) Rolfe in Orchid Review, 4: 332 (1896)
var. wallisii Reichenbach fil. in Xenia Orchidacea, 2: 189 (1873) Pfitzer in Engler's Das Pflanzenreich' IV, Heft 12: 53 (1903)
var. warscewiczianum Reichenbach fil. in Botanische Zeitung, 10: 692 (1852) Gruss in Die Orchidee 44(3): 134 (1993)
exstaminodium Castano, Hagsater, & Aguirre in Orqidea (Mexico) 9(29): 19 (1984)
lindenii Lindley in Orch. Linden. 28 (1846) Dressler & N.H. Williams in Taxon 24: 691 (1975)
Himantopetalum caricinum Lindley & Paxton in Paxton's Flower Garden 1: 39 (1850) Rolfe in Orchid Review, 4: 332 (1896)
christiansenianum Gruss & Roeth in Die Orchidee 52(2): 174 (2001)
pearcei Reichenbach fil. in Hamburger Garten- und Blumenzeitung 21: 297 (1865) Rauh & Senghas in Die Orchidee 26: 298 (1975)
klotzscheanum Reichenbach fil. in Schomburgk, Versuch einer Flora und Fauna von Guayana 1969 (1848), and in Die Orchideen in Linnaea 22: 811 (1849)
richteri Roeth & Gruss in Die Orchidee 45(3): 4 (1994)
tetzlaffianum Gruss in Caesiana 15: 33-40 (2000)
Platypetalum lindleyanum Schomburgk ex Lindley in Genera and Species of Orchidaceous Plants, 531 (1840) Rolfe in Orchid Review, 4: 332 (1896)
var. kaieturum N.E. Brown in Gardener's Chronicle n.s. 24: 262 (1885) Pfitzer in Engler's Das Pflanzenreich' IV, Heft 12: 45 (1903)
var. sargentianum Rolfe in Orchid Review 1: 239 (1893) Gruss in Orchid Digest 67(4): 228 (2003)
Lorifolia P. longifolium Reichenbach fil. & Warscewicz in Botanische Zeitung 10: 690 (1852) Rolfe in Orchid Review, 4: 332 (1896)
fma. gracile Veitch ex Rolfe in Gardener's Chronicle 728 (20 Dec. 1890) Gruss in Caesiana 16: 40 (2001)
var. roezlii Reichenbach fil. ex Regel in Gartenflora 22: 97 (1873) Pfitzer in Engler's Das Pflanzenreich' IV(50): 50 (1903)
var. roezlii fma. minutum Gruss in Caesiana 16: 40 (2001)
var. chapadense Campacci & Takase in Supplement No. 1 of the Journal of the Hokkaido Orchid Society 28: 1 (2000) Gruss in Orchid Digest 67(4): 232 (2003)
hartwegii Reichenbach fil. in Botanische Zeitung, 10: 714 (1852) Pfitzer in Engler's Das Pflanzenreich' IV, Heft 12: 48 (1903)
fma. baderi Roeth & Gruss in Die Orchidee 48(3): 94 (1997) Gruss in Caesiana 16: 40 (2001)
boissierianum Reichenbach fil. in Xenia Orchidacea, 1: 3 (1854) Rolfe in Orchid Review, 4: 332 (1896)
var. czerwiakowianum Reichenbach fil. in Bonplandia 2: 116 (1854) Gruss in Die Orchidee 46(6): 219 (1995)
var. reticulatum Reichenbach fil. in Xenia Orchidacea, 2: 223 (1874) Rolfe emend. Pfitzer in Engler's Das Pflanzenreich' IV, Heft 12: 50 (1903)
hirtzii Dodson in Orchis 58: 129 (1988)
vittatum Velloso in Flora Fluminensis IX, tb. 62 (1872) and in Arquivo do Museo Nacional do Rio De Janeiro V: 373 (1881) Rolfe in Orchid Review, 4: 332 (1896)
brasiliense Gruss & Quene in Orchid Digest 67(4): 242-243 (2003)
Micropetalum schlimii Linden & Reichenbach fil. in Bonplandia 2: 277 (1854) and Xenia Orchidacea 1: 125, tb. 44 (1854) Rolfe in Orchid Review, 4: 332 (1896)
fma. albiflorum Linden in Illustration Horticole, t. 183 (1874) Rolfe in Orchid Review, 4: 332 (1896)
fischeri Braem & Mohr in Leaflets of the Schlechter Institute 3: 28 (1996)
besseae Dodson & J. Kuhn in American Orchid Society Bulletin 50: 1308 (1981)
fma. flavum Braem in Schlechteriana 1(2): 55 (1990) Gruss in Caesiana 12: 65 (1999)
dalessandroi Dodson & Gruss in Die Orchidee 47(4): 216 (1996)
kovachii Atwood, Dalstrom & Fernandez in Selbyana 23, Supplement 1-4 (2002)

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