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Paphiopedilum wardii Summerh.

Ward's Paphiopedilum

Orchidaceae · China South-Central, Myanmar

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Paphiopedilum wardii, photograph KENPEI, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia CommonsPaphiopedilum wardii, photograph KENPEI, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia CommonsPaphiopedilum wardii, photograph magnolia1000 from Canada, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia CommonsPaphiopedilum wardii, photograph Orchi, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia CommonsPaphiopedilum wardii, photograph Orchi, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia CommonsPaphiopedilum wardii, photograph snotch from Sapporo, Hokkaido, Japan, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons 12 photographs ›

Summary

Paphiopedilum wardii is a species of orchid found from southwestern Yunnan to Myanmar.

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

Cultivation

Nothing derived: no habitat climate for this species.

Climate across the habitat

No habitat climate can be derived: No georeferenced record inside the range.

Natural habitat

Native range as published by WCVP.
No openly licensed record to show inside the range.
NativeChina South-Central, 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).
Extinct inEast Himalaya · recorded as extinct by WCVP: history, not habitat; no records are tested against these regions
Kew's description“perennial” · “wet tropical” · quoted from WCVP, RBG Kew (CC BY 4.0); not derived here
Evidence usedNo georeferenced record lies inside the stated native range: the one georeferenced record read lies outside it, and is not used, so no map marker or climate is derived from it.

Photographs

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Photographs: KENPEI, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons (2); magnolia1000 from Canada, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons; Orchi, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons (2); snotch from Sapporo, Hokkaido, Japan, 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 Aphiopedilum brevilabium; Cypripedium vernayi; Cypripedium wardianum; Cypripedium wardii; Paphiopedilum brevilabium and 6 more. (GBIF Backbone)

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The record

Family
Orchidaceae
Described by
Summerh.
Native to
China South-Central, Myanmar
Wild records
none in range · 1 outside it

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 2026-10-22no georeferenced record inside the range
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 1 datasets via GBIF.org; each carries its own licence.

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