Paphiopedilum syiharefanum CAVESTRO
Sektion Coryopedilum
In October 2025, paphiopedilums flowered in an orchid population on the Indonesian island of Java. These plants had been discovered in February 2023 in the coastal region of West Papua (Indonesia) at an altitude of 200 meters.
Due to the unusually small, shoe-like flower head, this bloom could not be classified as belonging to any other known species of Paphiopedilum. Cavestro, together with Dody Nugroho, described these plants as a new species and named them Paph. syiharefanum after Syi Harefa.
I would like to thank Dody Nugroho (Rifai Azka) and Syi Harefa for providing the following images.
Whether further flowers of this new species will also form such a small shoe-like structure can only be determined after subsequent flowering on additional plants.
Further details about this new description can be found here: