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Phragmipedium besseae; photograph (c) Thibaud Aronson, some rights reserved (CC BY-SA) CC BY-SA(c) Thibaud Aronson, some rights reserved (CC BY-SA) · observed growing wild · 2006-07-21

Phragmipedium besseae Dodson & J.Kuhn

Besse's Phragmipedium

Orchidaceae · Ecuador, Peru

No habitat climate
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Phragmipedium besseae, photograph (c) Thibaud Aronson, some rights reserved (CC BY-SA)Phragmipedium besseae, photograph author not stated, Public domain, via Wikimedia CommonsPhragmipedium besseae, photograph Orchi, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia CommonsPhragmipedium besseae, photograph Arne and Bent Larsen, Haarby, Denmark, CC BY-SA 2.5 dk, via Wikimedia CommonsPhragmipedium besseae, photograph Arne and Bent Larsen, Haarby, Denmark, CC BY-SA 2.5 dk, via Wikimedia CommonsPhragmipedium besseae, photograph Orchi, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons 14 photographs ›

Summary

Phragmipedium besseae is a species of orchid in the genus Phragmipedium. It is a terrestrial plant native to the wet montane forests on the eastern slope of the Andes in Colombia, Ecuador, and Peru.

Quoted from Wikipedia, "Phragmipedium besseae", CC BY-SA 4.0.

Cultivation

Nothing derived: no habitat climate for this species.

Climate across the habitat

No habitat climate can be derived: 6 in-range records, none placed to within 10 km. 6 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.
No openly licensed record to show inside the range.
NativeEcuador, Peru · 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 marker-2.95, -78.65 · in the densest population, 6 records (100% of those in range)
Kew's description“lithophyte” · “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; none carries a licence permitting republication, so the map shows no points. Under a dozen records behind the map. No climate across the range is derived for this species. 6 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: (c) Thibaud Aronson, some rights reserved (CC BY-SA); author not stated, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons; Orchi, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons (2); Arne and Bent Larsen, Haarby, Denmark, CC BY-SA 2.5 dk, via Wikimedia Commons (2).

Other Phragmipedium 13 in the reference

Phragmipedium boissierianum Phragmipedium boissierianum Boissier's Phragmipedium Photo: CC BY, Samuel LeePhragmipedium caricinum Phragmipedium caricinum Reed Grass-Like Phragmipedium Photo: CC BY, fernando vilarPhragmipedium caudatum Phragmipedium caudatum Tailed Phragmipedium Photo: CC BY-SA, Thibaud AronsonPhragmipedium humboldtii Phragmipedium humboldtii Humboldt's Phragmipedium Photo: CC BY, Kai SquiresPhragmipedium kovachii Phragmipedium kovachii Kovach's Phragmipedium Photo: CC BY, David F. BelmontePhragmipedium lindenii Phragmipedium lindenii Orchidaceae Photo: CC BY, Esteban PovedaPhragmipedium lindleyanum Phragmipedium lindleyanum Lindley's Phragmipedium Photo: CC BY, Guillaume DelaitrePhragmipedium longifolium Phragmipedium longifolium Long-Leaf Phragmipedium Photo: CC0, author not statedPhragmipedium pearcei Phragmipedium pearcei Pearce's Phragmipedium Photo: CC BY, Alan Rockefeller Phragmipedium × pfitzerianum Orchidaceae Phragmipedium × richteri Richter's Phragmipedium Phragmipedium schlimii Phragmipedium schlimii Schlimm's Phragmipedium Photo: CC0, author not stated all 14 ›

Names & registers

Also known as Paphiopedilum besseae; Phragmipedium besseae f. flavum; Phragmipedium besseae var. besseae; Phragmipedium besseae var. flavum. (GBIF Backbone)

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The record

Family
Orchidaceae
Described by
Dodson & J.Kuhn
Native to
Ecuador, Peru
Wild records
6 in range · 0 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 2026-10-226 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 answeredasked 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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