Paphiopedillum glaucophyllum
Common Name The Shiny Blue Green Leaf Paphiopedilum
Flower Size 3" or more [8 cm]
Found in central Sumatra and Java in deposits of humus on volcanic mountain slopes at elevations of 200 to 800 meters as a small sized, hot to warm growing, terrestrial species with clear blue-green, dull leaves from with 4 to 6, glaucous, narrowly oblong-elliptic leaves with ciliate basal margins and blooms from the spring through summer on a pubescent, dark green mottled dark purple, to 1 1/2' [40 cm] long, many [to 20] successively opening flowers with never more than 2 open at a time inflorescence carrying elliptic to ovate floral bracts and with flowers that last months.
Hot to warm growing, this species needs to be potted in rock and tree fern in light shade and water all year except for a short dry winter rest.