Paph aranianum?

[likespaphs]

i haven't heard of this species. saw this photo somewhere....

looks kinda like a bad dianthum to me. any thoughts?

(photo from RimbaFlora on flickr)

 

[Martin]

Aran Phetleung described this species recently.

 

[SelectOrchids]

It's just a bad dianthum... Aree Petchleung already passed to Olaf Gruss a pot-plant hybrid from Kunming, that has originated from the Kunming Botanical Gardens as an attempt to make pot-plant with local species, dianthum x villosum, and got it described as Paph. x Petchleungianum. Paph, xGrussianum is another of those artificial hybrids too.

Speaking of dianthum it exists too some colonies with pinkish flowers, that would deserve more a variety status. But that stuff is definitely just a poor colony of dianthum, nothing more.

 

[etex]

It's not very pretty!

 

[SlipperKing]

It's very horny, I can see that!

 

[NYEric]

 

[SlipperFan]

Very subtle coloring, and very interesting staminode shield.

 

[SelectOrchids]

Very subtle coloring, and very interesting staminode shield.

The staminode is within the range of variation of dianthum, and the color has nothing special, plenty of dianthum bloom like that... As for the dorsal, I would think that either it is a poor colony of dianthum, or the bud was on a jungle plant, with the drought pinching the dorsal as usual...

I have seen plenty of that kind of plant before, but never paid that much attention to it, because it is just a crappy dianthum. They came from Laos, and I have seen some from Vietnam too.