Paphiopedilum druryi (Bedd.) Stein (1892:466)
Drury's slipper orchid
Taxonomy & Nomenclature
Synonyms: Cypripedium druryi Bedd. in Icon. Pl. Ind. Or.: 23 (1869); Cordula druryi (Bedd.) Rolfe in Orchid Rev. 20: 2 (1912)
Conservation Status
Extinct in the Wild?
Last wild record: 1865 (Rao et al., 2003:xvii); 1875 (Nayar & Sastry, 1987:264)
Rediscovered in: 1972 (Mammen & Mammen, 1974 fide Lucas & Synge, 1978:377; Pempahishey, 1976 fide Lucas & Synge, 1978:377); 1974 (Rao et al., 2003:xvii)
Last record: 1972 (Anonymous, 1985:18)
Distribution
Tamil Nadu, India
Biology & Ecology
Hypodigm
Media
References
Original scientific description:
Beddome, R. H. (1869-74). Icones Plantarum Indiae Orientalis I. Gantz Bros., Madras. p. 23, pl. 112.
Other references:
Anonymous. (1985). Choosing the 24 most Endangered Species. Species Survival Commission Newsletter 5: 17-23.
Cribb, P. J. (1978). Paphiopedilum druryi. Curtis's bot. Mag. 182: t. 764.
Delden, R. J. van. (1971). Paphiopedilum druryi (Bedd.) Pfitz. Orchid Dig. 35 (8): 229-230.
Ganeshaiah, K. N. (2005). Recovery of endangered and threatened species: Developing a national priority list of plants and insects. Current Science 89(4): 599-600.
Govaerts, R. (2003). World Checklist of Monocotyledons Database in ACCESS: 1-71827. The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
Hawkes, J. G., Maxted, N. and Ford-Lloyd, B. V. (2000). Field Gene Banks, Botanic Gardens In Vitro, DNA and Pollen Conservation, pp. 92-107. In: The Ex Situ Conservation of Plant Genetic Resources. Kluwer Academic Publishers.
Henry, A. N., Vivekananthan, K. and Nair, N. C. (1978). Rare and Threatened Flowering Plants of South India. The Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society 75: 684-697 [695].
Jain, S. K. and Sastry, A. R. K. (comps.). (1983). Materials for a catalogue of threatened plants of India. Howrah, Botanical Survey of India. 69 pp.
Koopowitz, H. (2012). An updated, annotated checklist of the genus Paphiopedilum. Orchid Digest 76: 178-215.
Lucas, Grenville Llewellyn and Synge, Hugh (compilers). (1978). The IUCN Plant Red Data Book. Morges, Switzerland: IUCN. 540 pp. [pp. 377-378]
Mammen, V. and Mammen, J. (1974). Rediscovering Paphiopedilum druryi In Southern India. Orchid Dig. 38(1): 31-36.
Manilal, K. S. and Kumar, C. S. (eds.). (2004). Orchid Memories A tribute to Gunnar Seidenfaden: 1-265. Mentor Books, Calicut.
Nayar, M. P. and Sastry, A. R. K. (compilers). (1987, reprinted 2000). Red Data Book of Indian Plants. Volume 1. Calcutta: Botanical Survey of India. xiii + 367 pp, 16 pls, figs. [pp. 264-265]
Pempahishey, K. T. (1976). Paphiopedilum druryi – Revisited. Am. Orchid Soc. Bull. 45(5): 431-433.
Pradhan, U. C. (1976). Indian orchids: guide to identification and culture 1. Published by the author. p. 38, pl. 9.
Rao, C. Kameswara, Geetha, B. L. and Suresh, Geetha. (2003). Red List of Threatened Vascular Plant Species in India: Compiled from the 1997 IUCN Red List of Threatened Plants. ENVIS Centre on Floral Diversity, Botanical Survey of India, Kolkata. xxiv + 144 pp. [automatic download]
Walter, Kerry S. and Gillett, Harriet J. (eds.). (1998). 1997 IUCN Red List of Threatened Plants. Compiled by the World Conservation Monitoring Centre. Gland, Switzerland & Cambridge, UK: IUCN – The World Conservation Union. lxiv + 862 pp.