PAPHIOPEDILUM MYANMARICUM: A NEW SPECIES OF SLIPPER ORCHID (CYPRIPEDIOIDEAE, ORCHIDACEAE)

摘要

THE GENUS Paphiopedilutn can be classified into three subgenera and seven sections (Cribb, 1998) according to morphological, cytological, and molecular criteria. Subgenus Brachypetalum species hold a special place in the affections of slipper orchid aficionados. This group contains dwarf species that morphologically appear intermediate between subgenus Parvisepalum (Karasawa & Saito, 1982) and subgenus Paphiopedilutn. Modern studies confirm this and phylo-genetically the group appears to have evolved after the Parvisepalum subgenus but before the rest of the genus (for review see Koopowitz, 2017).