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Paphiopedilum spicerianum (Rchb.f.) Pfitzer

Spicer’s Paphiopedilum

Orchidaceae · China South-Central, Assam +2

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Paphiopedilum spicerianum, photograph Orchi, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia CommonsPaphiopedilum spicerianum, photograph Orchi, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia CommonsPaphiopedilum spicerianum, photograph Myric, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia CommonsPaphiopedilum spicerianum, photograph Arne and Bent Larsen, Haarby, Denmark, CC BY-SA 2.5 dk, via Wikimedia CommonsPaphiopedilum spicerianum, photograph Arne and Bent Larsen, Haarby, Denmark, CC BY-SA 2.5 dk, via Wikimedia CommonsPaphiopedilum spicerianum, photograph magnolia1000 from Canada, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons 12 photographs ›

Summary

Paphiopedilum spicerianum is a species of flowering plant in the family Orchidaceae. It is said to be endemic to Assam (India) but might actually be rather widespread, though nowhere common, between Bhutan and northwestern Myanmar.

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

Cultivation

Nothing derived: no habitat climate for this species.

Climate across the habitat

No habitat climate can be derived: Only 1 distinct land cell of the climate grid holds an in-range record placed to within 10 km; three are needed for an envelope. 5 of the 6 in-range records are 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 they count for the map and its marker.

Natural habitat

Native range as published by WCVP; the marker is where the records are densest and decides nothing.
Openly licensed records inside the range, framed on where they fall.
NativeChina South-Central, Assam, East Himalaya, Myanmar · 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).
Map marker21.95, 101.25 · in the densest population, 4 records (67% of those in range)
Kew's description“perennial” · “wet tropical” · quoted from WCVP, RBG Kew (CC BY 4.0); not derived here
Evidence usedThe map marker rests on all 6 georeferenced records inside the native range; the map shows only the 2 openly licensed ones, which alone would put the marker 1362 km away. Under a dozen records behind the map. No climate across the range is derived for this species. 5 in-range records are placed to worse than 10 km, or with no stated accuracy (admitted only as a person's observation to three decimals), and stay on the map but off the climate.
How this section is made
The map marker: the centre of the tenth-degree cell nearest the middle (no openly licensed record lies in the population, so no record's coordinates are published) of the densest 1° population of the 6 in-range records; it decides nothing. Records outside the native range, living specimens and records marked introduced are not used; which records count.

Photographs

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Photographs: Orchi, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons (2); Myric, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons; Arne and Bent Larsen, Haarby, Denmark, CC BY-SA 2.5 dk, via Wikimedia Commons (2); magnolia1000 from Canada, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

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 argus Paphiopedilum argus Argus Paphiopedilum Photo: CC BY-SA, Arne and Bent Larsen, Haarby, DenmarkPaphiopedilum 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 Baptista all 72 ›

Names & registers

Also known as Cordula spiceriana; Cypripedium spicerianum; Cypripedium spicerianum subsp. leodiense; Paphiopedilum spicerianum f. burkhardii; Paphiopedilum spicerianum f. immaculatum. (GBIF Backbone)

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The record

Family
Orchidaceae
Described by
(Rchb.f.) Pfitzer
Native to
China South-Central, Assam, East Himalaya +1
Wild records
6 in range · 2 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 answeredas of 2026-10-21GBIF occurrence download https://doi.org/10.15468/dl.hbdw64, of 2026-10-21
Habitat climate climate nothing to reportasked 2026-10-22only 1 distinct land cell of the climate grid holds an in-range record placed to within 10 km; three are needed for an envelope
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 3 datasets via GBIF.org; each carries its own licence.

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