Paphiopedilum fairrieanum
SPECIES
Found in the Indian Himalayas and Bhutan on the edges of high river banks and forests in leaf litter and humus at elevations of 1300 to 2200 meters, as a miniature sized, cool to cold growing terrestrial or lithophyte on limestone outcrops in tall grass with narrowly elliptic to ligulate, clear dull green, mid-rib prominent on underside leaves that blooms in the late autumn through spring with 1 flower on a pubescent, 10" [25 cm] long, slender, purple pubescent inflorescence.