Phragmipedium longifolium

Phragmipedium longifolium is a species of Phragmipedium.

Description

Plant usually blooms mostly during the fall with seven successive 20 cm wide flowers.

Distribution

Plants are found growing from Mexico to Peru at elevations of 600 to 1700 meters

Culture

Plants grow in warm areas with bright indirect sunlight. Plants should be watered with clean water and keep potting media wet. Plants can tolerate lots of water as long as media remains fresh. Plants are sensitive to salts. Keep fertilizers to a minimum as plants are light feeders. Plant in a mix with good air circulation. Plants can be grown in a mix of sphagnum moss, charcoal and perlite or medium fir bark with perlite.

Naming

Common Names: The Long-Leaf Phragmipedium

Synonyms

1. Cypripedium dariense Rchb. f. 1878
2. Cypripedium hartwegii Rchb. f. 1852
3. Cypripedium hincksianum Rchb.f 1878
4. *Cypripedium longifolium Warsc & Rchb.f 1852
5. Cypripedium longifolium var. gracile H.J.Veitch ex Rolfe in ?.
6. Cypripedium longifolium var. hartwegii (Rchb. f.) J.H. Veitch 1889
7. Cypripedium reichenbachianum hort. 1887
8. Cypripedium reichenbachii W. Bull 1869
9. Cypripedium roezlii Regel 1873
10. Paphiopedilum hartwegii (Rchb. f.) Pfitzer 1894
11. Paphiopedilum hinksianum Pfitz 1894
12. Paphiopedilum longifolium Pfitz 1888
13. Phragmipedium dariense (Rchb.f.) Garay 1979
14. Phragmipedium hartwegii [Rchb.f] L.O.Williams 1839
15. Phragmipedium hartwegii f. baderi (Roeth & O.Gruss) O.Gruss 2001
16. Phragmipedium hartwegii var. baderi Roeth & O.Gruss 1997
17. Phragmipedium hincksianum [Rchb.f] Garay 1979
18. Phragmipedium longifolium f. gracile (H.J.Veitch ex Rolfe) O.Gruss 2001
19. Phragmipedium longifolium f. minutum O.Gruss 2001
20. Phragmipedium longifolium var. darienense (Rchb.f.) Hallier f. 1897
21. Phragmipedium longifolium var. gracile (H.J.Veitch) Pfitzer 1903
22. Phragmipedium longifolium var. hincksianum (Rchb.f.) Stein 1892
23. Phragmopedilum hartwegii (Rchb. f.) Pfitzer 1903
24. Phragmopedilum longifolium (Rchb. f. & Warsz.) Pfitzer 1898
25. Selenipedium dariense Rchb.f 1869
26. Selenipedium gracile (H.J.Veitch) Desbois 1889
27. Selenipedium hartwegii (Rchb. f.) Rchb. f. 1854
28. Selenipedium hincksianum Rchb. f. 1878
29. Selenipedium longifolium Rchb.f 1854
30. Selenipedium reichenbachii Endres 1869