04-Oct-2018
The description of a new variety of Paphiopedilum villosum from Vietnam is published.

Paph. villosum var. laichaunum Hai & Tuan

05-Jun-2018
A new species of Paphiopedilum from Laos is described by André Schuitema, Sulivong Luang Aphay and Shunsuke Iio. It is called Paph. papilio-laoticus and belongs to the subgenus Paphiopedilum section Paphiopedilum.

Paph. papilio-laoticus Schuitema, Luang Aphay & Iio

Source: www.orchideenjournal.de

08-May-2018
A greenish white colour form of Paph. agusii Cavestro & Bougourd is described by Olaf Gruß, William Cavestro and Gus Benk as Paph. agusii f. alboviride.

Paph. agusii f. alboviride Gruß, Cavestro & G. Benk

Source: www.orchidee.de

02-Apr-2018
A new variety of a natural hybrid from Vietnam is described by Olaf Gruß, Leonid V. Averyanov, Chu Xuan Canh and Nguyen Hoang Tuan.

Paph. ×aspersum var. trantuananhii Gruß, Averyanov, C.X. Canh & N.H. Tuan

Source: www.orchidee.de

22-Feb-2018
A new section of the genus Paphiopedilum is proposed to accomodate the species Paph. rungsuriyanum. This new section Pumila is descriped by Leonid V. Averyanov, Olaf Gruß and Harold Koopowitz in an E-Paper publication of Die Orchidee.

Source: www.orchidee.de

22-Dec-2017
Dariusz L. Szlachetko, Marta Kolanowska and Marcin Górniak describe a new natural hybrid from Guatemala in PeerJ. It is the first natural hybrid in the section Irapeana of the genus Cypripedium.

Cyp. ×fred-mulleri Szlachetko, Kolanowska & Górniak

Source: www.peerj.com

18-Oct-2017
A new taxon of Paphiopedilum from Sumatra, Indonesia, is described twice. Destario Metusala describes it at the varietal level giving it the name Paph. barbatum var. acehense in Jurnal Pro-Life. William Cavestro and Olaf Gruß describe it as a new species in OrchideenJournal; Paph. rohmannii.

Paph. barbatum var. acehense Metusala
Paph. rohmanii Cavestro & Gruß

Sources: ejournal.uki.ac.id/index.php/prolife and www.orchideenjournal.de

Are you looking for the old PhragWeb website? Use the link in the top right corner of the screen to go there.

Welcome (back).

It has been a while since the last update. In that time I've been working on the genus Cypripedium. I know the current list on the website is not perfect, but I think it is a descently usable list.
Further more new names have been added, including the lasted published hybrids (excluding the genus Paphiopedilum). The vast list of Paphiopedilum hybrids is still a work in progress.

Species' influence charts.

With the revision of this website that was uploaded on 08-Feb-2018 came a new feature. On the Ancestry tab of the data page of every hybrid, a pie chart has been added that shows the percentage of influence of the species involved in the creation of the hybrid.

Recent monographs of slipper orchid genera.


The Genus Phragmipedium. Guido J. Braem, in collaboration with Eliseo Tesón & Sandra L. Öhlund Published 2018 by Prof. Dr. Guido J. Braem. (English)		Slipper Orchids of the Tropical Americas. Phillip Cribb & Christopher Purver Published 2017 by Natural History Publication and Orchid Digest in association with Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. (English)		The Genus Paphiopedilum. 2nd Edition. Guido J. Braem, Guy Chiron & Sandra L. Öhlund Published 2016 by Bishen Singh Mahendra Pal Singh. (English)		Lateinamerikanische Frauenschuhe. Olaf Gruß Published 2014 by Orchideenzauber-Verlag. (German)