Paphiopedilum spicerianum
SPECIES
Found in the Assam region of India, the eastern Himalayas, Bhutan and Myanmar as well as Yunnan province of China on steep rocky slopes or in rock crevasses at elevations of 300 to 2000 meters as a hot to cool growing terrrestrial or sometimes lithophytic species with 5 oblong, clear, dull green leaves that are speckled purple on the outer surface towards the base and is from the that blooms from autumn through winter on an erect, 1 to successively and rarely 2, slender, purple, 9 to 16" [20 to 40 cm] long inflorescence with ovate, acute, greenish yellow with a maroon midvien abaxially, shorter than the ovary floral bracts and needs shade with no winter rest.