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Early illustrations of Phragmipedium × grande. A: Cypripedium hybridum grande, from Sander & Rolfe 1892. B: Selenipedium × grande, from Rolfe 1890.
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The taxonomic history of Phragmipedium × grande is traced to show that its current treatment as the cross between P. longifolium and P. humboldtii is untenable. According to our interpretation of the holotype and other materials prepared from specimens of the original cross, the name Phragmipedium × grande, as well as its counterpart, the orchid gr...
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... under the name Cypripedium × grande the artificial hybrid of P. longifolium with any of the species of sect. Phragmipedium. Examples of early illustrations of Cypripedium × grande (sometimes referred to as Selenipedium grande) are those of Veitch (1889), Rolfe (1890), Sander and Rolfe (1892), anonymous (1894), and Desbois (1898), among others (Fig. 3). For the hybrid grex involving P. humboldtii, the Central American species that transmits to its progeny a rich brownish-red color in the labellum, the horticultural literature of the time used sometimes the name "Cypripedium grande atratum", a nomen nudum coined by R. I. Measures -one of the oldest and most respected orchid growers ...
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... vast collection of "Cypripedium" that he cultivated and crossed in his greenhouses at Cambridge Lodge, near London (Anonymous 1894, Bailey 1909). When Frederick Sander and Robert A. Rolfe published a plate of Selenipedium (hybridum) grande in Reichenbachia (Sander & Rolfe 1892), they featured a plant whose flowers have a prominently reddish lip (Fig. 3A). They, in fact, portrayed a specimen grown in the collection of W. S. Kimball of Rochester, New York, a plant that was figured again two years later in a photolithograph published in the supplement to the Gardeners' Chronicle with the name Cypripedium grande var. atratum (Anonymous 1894, Fig. 4), that is, the hybrid of P. longifolium ...
