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Paphiopedilum villosum; photograph Orchi, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons CC BY-SAOrchi, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Paphiopedilum villosum (Lindl.) Stein

Villose Paphiopedilum; Hairy Slipper Orchid; The Hirsute Paphiopedilum

Orchidaceae · China South-Central, China Southeast +7

No habitat climate
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Paphiopedilum villosum, photograph orchidgalore from New York, USA, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia CommonsPaphiopedilum villosum, photograph Orchi, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia CommonsPaphiopedilum villosum, photograph Archwizard, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia CommonsPaphiopedilum villosum, photograph Yercaud-elango, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia CommonsPaphiopedilum villosum, photograph L. Shyamal, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia CommonsPaphiopedilum villosum, photograph Yercaud-elango, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons 12 photographs ›

Summary

Paphiopedilum villosum is a species of orchid found Assam, southern China and the Myanmar states of Kachin, Kayar, Shan and the Upper Sagaing region. The population is declining across its range and the species is listed as vulnerable by the IUCN due to habitat degradation and poaching for the global plant trade.

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

Cultivation

Nothing derived: no habitat climate for this species.

Climate across the habitat

No habitat climate can be derived: 31 in-range records, none placed to within 10 km. 31 of the 31 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, China Southeast, Assam, Bangladesh, Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar, Thailand, Vietnam · introduced: East Himalaya · 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 marker17.124, 101.509 · in the densest population, 20 records (65% of those in range)
Kew's description“epiphyte or lithophyte” · “wet tropical” · quoted from WCVP, RBG Kew (CC BY 4.0); not derived here
Evidence usedThe map marker rests on all 31 georeferenced records inside the native range; the map shows only the 8 openly licensed ones, which alone would put the marker 494 km away. 3 records outside the WCVP native range not used. No climate across the range is derived for this species. 31 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 openly licensed record nearest the middle of the densest 1° population of the 31 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: orchidgalore from New York, USA, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons; Orchi, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons; Archwizard, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons; Yercaud-elango, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (2); L. Shyamal, CC BY-SA 3.0, 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 boxallii; Cordula villosa; Cypripedium boxallii; Cypripedium dilectum; Cypripedium villosum and 2 more. (GBIF Backbone)

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The record

Family
Orchidaceae
Described by
(Lindl.) Stein
Native to
China South-Central, China Southeast, Assam +6
Wild records
31 in range · 8 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; 2 records within 1 km of a botanic garden, herbarium or zoo left out (2 at a botanic garden or arboretum; Wikidata's list)
Habitat climate climate nothing to reportasked 2026-10-2231 in-range records, 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 9 datasets via GBIF.org; each carries its own licence.

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