- Plants
- ›Vascular Plants
- ›flowering plants
- ›monocots
- ›Agaves, Orchids, Irises, and Allies
- ›Orchids
- ›Slipper Orchids
Asian Slipper Orchids
Paphiopedilum
Paphiopedilum, often called the Venus slipper, is a genus of the lady slipper orchid subfamily Cypripedioideae of the flowering plant family Orchidaceae. The genus comprises some 80 accepted taxa including several natural hybrids. The genus is native to Southeast Asia, the Indian subcontinent, southern China, New Guinea and the Solomon and Bismarck Islands. The type species of this genus is Paphiopedilum insigne.
The species and their hybrids are extensively cultivated, and are known as either paphiopedilums, or by the abbreviation paphs in horticulture.
18 branches of this genus, most-observed first
Paphiopedilum
subgenusPaphiopedilum
Sigmatopetalum
subgenusSigmatopetalum
Multifloral Paphiopedilums
subgenusPolyantha
Parvisepalum
subgenusParvisepalum
Brachypetalum
subgenusBrachypetalum
Cochlopetalum
subgenusCochlopetalum
Megastaminodium
subgenusMegastaminodium
Paphiopedilum × crossianum
hybridPaphiopedilum × crossianum
Paphiopedilum × huangrongshuanum
hybridPaphiopedilum × huangrongshuanum
Paphiopedilum × kimballianum
hybridPaphiopedilum × kimballianum
Paphiopedilum × petchleungianum
hybridPaphiopedilum × petchleungianum
Paphiopedilum × powellii
hybridPaphiopedilum × powellii
Paphiopedilum × pradhanii
hybridPaphiopedilum × pradhanii
Paphiopedilum × sanjiangianum
hybridPaphiopedilum × sanjiangianum
Paphiopedilum × yingjiangense
hybridPaphiopedilum × yingjiangense
Paphiopedilum × dalatense
hybridPaphiopedilum × dalatense
Paphiopedilum × expansum
hybridPaphiopedilum × expansum
Paphiopedilum × polystigmaticum
hybridPaphiopedilum × polystigmaticum
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
—
geo-referenced records in GBIF, from museums, herbaria and field observers.
Drag the globe to turn it. Dots are where records exist, not a range map; darker means more records.
In the stacks
Searching the stacks…
Every page naming Paphiopedilum in the Biodiversity Heritage Library →
This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 47848.