Paphiopedilum adductum
A critically endangered multifloral slipper orchid endemic to Mindanao in the Philippines. It has dark green strap leaves and a hairy, purple spike of two to several long-petalled flowers, and is named for its sharply bent (adducted) staminode. The type form grows in cool-intermediate montane forest at about 1,250–1,350 m. It is known as difficult in cultivation because it makes new roots only once a year.
Where it grows wild
Montane forest in Bukidnon, where it grows in leaf litter and moss. orchidspecies.com describes it as an epiphyte, so it most likely roots into humus pockets on mossy trunks and ledges rather than in mineral soil. The darker var. anitum (formerly P. anitum) grows at lower elevation in eastern Mindanao.
Two GBIF specimens from the Mt Hamiguitan range in Davao Oriental are at 280 m, probably the lowland var. anitum.
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