Paph. helenae

Found recently in north Vietnam and southern China in primary, mixed and coniferous, semi-deciduous, open broadleafed dry forest on steep, highly eroded limestone cliff faces facing north at elevations of 100 to 900 meters as a small [smallest of the genus] sized, hot to warm growing lithophytic species with 3 to 5 distichous, coriaceous-fleshy to rigid, succulent, oblanceolate to oblong-elliptic, obtuse and tridenticulate apically, green with a few purple spots beneath near the base leaves that blooms in the late summer and fall on an suberect to slightly hanging, 1.6" to 2.8" [4 to 7 cm] long, shortly and densely black-purple, pubescent inflorescence with a single flower arising from a conduplicate, ovate to elliptic, much shorter than the ovary floral bract.

Size : Blooming