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Paphiopedilum argus (Rchb.f.) Stein

Argus Paphiopedilum

Orchidaceae · Philippines

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Paphiopedilum argus, photograph Arne and Bent Larsen, Haarby, Denmark, CC BY-SA 2.5 dk, via Wikimedia CommonsPaphiopedilum argus, photograph Guy Waterval, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia CommonsPaphiopedilum argus, photograph Felix, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia CommonsPaphiopedilum argus, photograph Felix, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons 5 photographs ›

Summary

Paphiopedilum argus is a species of orchid endemic to Luzon Island of the Philippines. Various hybrids are cultivated involving P. argus.

Quoted from Wikipedia, "Paphiopedilum argus", CC BY-SA 4.0.

Cultivation

Nothing derived: no habitat climate for this species.

Climate across the habitat

No habitat climate can be derived: 1 in-range record, none placed to within 10 km. 1 of the 1 in-range records is placed to worse than 10 km, or to no stated accuracy and fewer than three decimals or by something other than a person's observation, and cannot place a climate cell, though it counts for the map and its marker.

Natural habitat

Native range as published by WCVP.
Openly licensed records inside the range, framed on where they fall.
NativePhilippines · regions are the level-3 units of the World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions, as Kew's World Checklist records ranges, some under historical names such as Yugoslavia or Czechoslovakia (how).
Kew's description“perennial” · “wet tropical” · quoted from WCVP, RBG Kew (CC BY 4.0); not derived here
Evidence usedThe map marker rests on the one georeferenced record inside the native range, openly licensed and shown on the map. 1 record outside the WCVP native range not used. Under a dozen records behind the map. No climate across the range is derived for this species. 1 in-range record is placed to worse than 10 km, or with no stated accuracy (admitted only as a person's observation to three decimals), and stays on the map but off the climate.
Other GBIF keysRecords also from GBIF's key 8341840 (Paphiopedilum argus (Rchb.f.) Pfitz.): Kew's file holds it as Paphiopedilum argus (Rchb.f.) Stein (accepted); 0 records, from GBIF's search API on the day of the build.

Photographs

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Photographs: Arne and Bent Larsen, Haarby, Denmark, CC BY-SA 2.5 dk, via Wikimedia Commons; Guy Waterval, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons; Felix, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (2).

Other Paphiopedilum 71 in the reference

Paphiopedilum acmodontum Paphiopedilum acmodontum Pointed Tooth Paphiopedilum Photo: CC BY-SA, Dalton Holland BaptistaPaphiopedilum appletonianum Paphiopedilum appletonianum Appleton's Paphiopedilum Photo: CC BY-SA, Dalton Holland BaptistaPaphiopedilum armeniacum Paphiopedilum armeniacum Apricot Orange Paphiopedilum Photo: CC BY-SA, OrchiPaphiopedilum barbatum Paphiopedilum barbatum Bearded Paphiopedilum Photo: CC BY-SA, OrchiPaphiopedilum barbigerum Paphiopedilum barbigerum Beard Carrying Paphiopedilum Photo: CC BY-SA, User:BotBlnPaphiopedilum bellatulum Paphiopedilum bellatulum Enchanting Paphiopedilum Photo: CC BY-SA, OrchiPaphiopedilum bullenianum Paphiopedilum bullenianum Bullen's Paphiopedilum Photo: CC BY-SA, Dalton Holland BaptistaPaphiopedilum callosum Paphiopedilum callosum Callus Paphiopedilum Photo: CC BY, Muhammad HEEMBOOPaphiopedilum canhii Paphiopedilum canhii Canh's Paphiopedilum Photo: CC BY-SA, Phạm văn ThếPaphiopedilum charlesworthii Paphiopedilum charlesworthii Charlesworth Paphiopedilum Photo: CC BY-SA, OrchiPaphiopedilum ciliolare Paphiopedilum ciliolare Short Haired Paphiopedilum Photo: CC BY-SA, Dalton Holland BaptistaPaphiopedilum concolor Paphiopedilum concolor One Colored Paphiopedilum Photo: CC BY-SA, Orchi all 72 ›

Names & registers

Also known as Cordula argus; Cypripedium argus; Cypripedium argus var. moensii; Cypripedium moensianum; Cypripedium moensii and 6 more. (GBIF Backbone)

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The record

Family
Orchidaceae
Described by
(Rchb.f.) Stein
Native to
Philippines
Wild records
1 in range · 1 open

Every figure here is derived from public data by a stated rule and names its source; nothing about this species is written for its page by a person or by AI, apart from the marked, credited quotations. How →

Where this page came from built 2026-10-22
GBIF species record gbif.species answeredasked 2026-10-22
GBIF synonyms gbif.synonyms answeredasked 2026-10-22
GBIF common names gbif.vernacular answeredasked 2026-10-22names fetched 2026-10-22
WCVP native range wcvp.distribution answeredas of 2026-06-04
GBIF occurrence records gbif.occurrences answeredasked 2026-10-22GBIF occurrence download https://doi.org/10.15468/dl.hbdw64, of 2026-10-21; 0 records of GBIF's key 8341840, Paphiopedilum argus (Rchb.f.) Pfitz. (Kew's file holds it as Paphiopedilum argus (Rchb.f.) Stein (accepted)): GBIF occurrence search API
Habitat climate climate nothing to reportasked 2026-10-221 in-range record, none placed to within 10 km
Wikidata wikidata answeredasked 2026-10-22
Wikipedia wikipedia answeredasked 2026-10-22
iNaturalist photographs, wild inat.photos.wild nothing to reportasked 2026-10-22from iNaturalist's open data of 2026-09-27: research-grade observations with an open-licence photograph, the 24 whose photographs iNaturalist received last (the open data holds no votes); filled 2026-10-22
iNaturalist photographs, cultivated inat.photos.cultivated not asked
GBIF media gbif.media nothing to reportasked 2026-10-22
Wikimedia Commons commons answeredasked 2026-10-22
OpenAlex papers openalex not askednot yet asked for this reference; a later fill takes the papers from OpenAlex's snapshot

Every source is recorded as having answered, reported nothing, refused, failed, not been asked, or answered twice where one answer is taken (“not taken: two items answered”), and, for a source asked when this page was built, when: the figures are as the source held them that day; a source read from a file (Kew's World Checklist, a GBIF download) says "as of" the file's day instead; a row carried from an earlier build of the page names that build instead. Only “nothing to report” is ever shown as an absence. Records came from 2 datasets via GBIF.org; each carries its own licence.

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