Paphiopedilum delenatii

Paphiopedilum delenatii is found in northern Guangxi and southeastern Yunnan provinces of China and Vietnam in broadleaf, evergreen lowland forests or primary highland cloud forests on soils rich in silicates or acidic soils or mossy crevasses on eastern or southern facing granite or gneiss slopes above rivers and streams in partial shade at elevations of 750 to 1500 meters as a small sized, warm to cool growing terrestrial and lithophytic species with 5 to 7, narrowly elliptic to oblong elliptic, distichous, light green and veined and mottled dark green, purple spotted beneath, obtuse and minutely unequally trilobed apically leaves that blooms in the late autumn, winter to early spring bloomer with 1 or 2 [rarely 3] apical, fragrant lemon-honey scented flowers on an erect, 22 cm long, densely white hirsute, reddish inflorescence with pale green spotted with purple brown, ovate, conduplicate, abaxially hairy, shorter than the ovary floral bract.