Paphiopedilum villosum var. fusco-roseum ‘Hung Sheng’ BM/TPS

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truly beautiful, and worth the effort to get it from the source.
You must self it .
 
Leslie, this is gorgeous. Very pretty ! 👌 Congrats to obtain and flower it.
How common is this variety in EU? Not available here much. That’s why I got from Taiwan a confirmed division.
I think this variety is very rare. So far I don't know any vendor/nursery who/which offers it.
 
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Impressive dorsal! I have two plants in flower but not sure If they are this variety. Where does it appear in the wild?
 
According to the paper 'Variation of Villosum in Vietnam' by Leonid Averyanov (Orchid Digest, July/August/December 2007, pp.102-106), it's on the border of Vietnam with Laos and Cambodia (below taken from article):


"These plants have remarkable flowers with pink to
purple centers of the dorsal sepal bordered with a pure
white margin (Fig. 9-12). Occasionally the pink central
area of the sepal is tinted with light green at the base
(Fig. 11). In other variants, the whole flower may be a
light dull yellowish color with a nearly white dorsal
sepal that is slightly tinted with pink, which was
observed in type specimen (Fig. 9). Another marginal
form of this taxon has the dorsal sepal with a deep pur-
ple central area margined with wide pure white border
(Fig. 12). Such plants were recently described as P.
macranthum on the basis of plants imported from east-
ern Cambodia bordering Vietnam (Z. J. Liu, S. C. Chen,
2002). Available data indicate distribution of P. villosum
var. fusco-roseum in a narrow mountain area spreading
along the Vietnamese border with Laos and Cambodia
(map 1). This rare variety is obviously a local endemic
of eastern Indochina not yet reported from other areas
of the peninsula. A few of the observed plants of this
taxon were found as lithophytes or terrestrial herbs and
were flowering from October to December."
 

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