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Orchid Species: Paphiopedilum chaoi

Kew currently accepted name is Paphiopedilum henryanum

Paphiopedilum chaoi is an orchid species identified by H.S.Hua in 1999. Culture information and photos for this orchid are commonly detailed under the currently accepted name of Paphiopedilum henryanum.
Genus
Paphiopedilum (Paph.)
Grex
chaoi
Parents
Species
Author
H.S.Hua
Year
1999
ORIGIN: A recently discovered species [1987] that occurs around the China and northern Vietnamese borders at 610 to 1400 meters in elevation.

DESCRIPTION: Rare, smaller sized, warm to cool growing lithophyte in semi-deciduous, broad leafed, mixed and coniferous, mossy, open forests on steep highly eroded limestone cliffs with 3 to 6 distichous, lanceolate or linear-ligulate, obtuse, unequally bilobulbate or minutely tridenticulate apically, glossy dark green above, paler green below leaves that is sharply keeled beneath that blooms in the fall and winter on a single flowered, erect, 4 3/4 to 6 [12 to 15 cm] long, green to purple brown pubescent, terminal inflorescence.

FLOWER SIZE: 1 3/5 to 2 1/2 inches [4 to 6 cm] -- information provided by Jay Pfahl, author of the Internet Orchid Species Encyclopedia (IOSPE).
Other Names
Genus Name Genus Grex Name Year Author
Add+ Paphiopedilum Paph henryanum 1987 Braem
Add+ Paphiopedilum Paph dollii 1987 Lückel
Most awarded/recent cultivars: Paph. henryanum 'Barbara' (7 awards from 2012 to 2018) Paph. henryanum 'Schanz' (7 awards from 2011 to 2017) Paph. henryanum 'Bear' (3 awards from 2004 to 2008) Paph. henryanum 'Django' (2 awards in 2018) Paph. henryanum f. christae 'Poe Creek' (2 awards in 2018) Paph. henryanum 'Geka' (2 awards from 2015 to 2017) Paph. henryanum 'Strub' (2 awards from 2013 to 2016) Paph. henryanum 'Rosina' (2 awards from 2009 to 2014) Paph. henryanum 'Arbor' (2 awards from 1991 to 2013) Paph. henryanum 'Bärbel' (2 awards in 2012) Paph. henryanum 'Aquarius' (2 awards in 2010) Paph. henryanum 'Marriott Leopard Moon' (2 awards from 1998 to 2006) Paph. henryanum 'Howard P. Martin' (2018) Paph. henryanum 'Super Jumbo' (2017) Paph. henryanum 'Fajen's Orchids' (2017) Paph. henryanum 'Boscia Ocelot' (2016) Paph. henryanum 'Lena' (2015) Paph. henryanum 'Mühlviertel' (2014) Paph. henryanum 'Schutter' (2014) Paph. henryanum 'Charly' (2014)
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