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Orchids Partly documented

Paphiopedilum hookerae

A small Bornean slipper orchid of the Barbata group with strongly tessellated, dark-and-silver mottled leaves and a single flower with purple-tipped, spoon-shaped petals. It grows in leaf litter and moss on shaded forest slopes and wants warm, constantly humid, shady conditions year round.

Paphiopedilum hookerae
Photo: Dalton Holland Baptista, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
At home, aim for
Day Warm-growingTargets in Plantistry
Night Close to the dayTargets in Plantistry
Humidity Humid airBand in Plantistry
Light ShadeDLI and PPFD in Plantistry
No rest periodGrows in the ground

Where it grows wild

A terrestrial or lithophytic orchid of humid Bornean forest, rooting in leaf litter and moss pockets on shaded slopes and rocks. Detail here comes from what is known for mottled-leaf Paphiopedilum of Borneo plus the measured sites; published habitat notes for this species were not reachable.

The three measured sites sit at 20-456 m; the species is generally reported from low to mid elevations in Sarawak, Sabah and Kalimantan, with some populations likely higher than the sampled grid cells.

Borneo

🔒 Growing it like that

The wild conditions above, turned into targets for a shelf, a tent or a greenhouse. The full profile has:

✓ Day and night temperature targets, and the limits it tolerates
✓ Humidity band, and how to hold it
✓ Light as DLI and PPFD for a grow light
✓ Wet and dry seasons, and whether to rest it
✓ Substrate and airflow
✓ A step-by-step setup to grow it like the wild

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Profiles are drafts built from measured range and climate and from published sources; each section carries its own confidence in the app. Photo from Wikimedia Commons, used under its CC BY-SA 3.0 licence, unmodified.