taxonID	type	description	language	source
3CFD05AF7E9256599E389CD52D31C602.taxon	description	Figs 4, 5 Chinese name. 墨脱兜兰	en	Tang, Feng-Xia, Rao, Wen-Hui, Zhang, Ze, Wu, Xin-Yi, Wang, Meng, Li, Jian, Chen, Jie-Shan, Duan, Xiao-Juan, Wang, Mei-Na (2025): Paphiopedilum motuoense (Orchidaceae, Cypripedioideae), a new species from Motuo, Xizang, China. PhytoKeys 259: 131-144, DOI: 10.3897/phytokeys.259.145861
3CFD05AF7E9256599E389CD52D31C602.taxon	diagnosis	Diagnosis. Paphiopedilum motuoense is similar to P. venustum and P. qingyongii in morphology, but differs from them by having a smaller staminode, petals flushed with purplish red, a purplish red lip with purplish brown veins, pouched with erect and triangular auriculas on both sides of mouth, and leaves adaxially tessellated with pale green and pale yellowish green (Table 1, Fig. 1).	en	Tang, Feng-Xia, Rao, Wen-Hui, Zhang, Ze, Wu, Xin-Yi, Wang, Meng, Li, Jian, Chen, Jie-Shan, Duan, Xiao-Juan, Wang, Mei-Na (2025): Paphiopedilum motuoense (Orchidaceae, Cypripedioideae), a new species from Motuo, Xizang, China. PhytoKeys 259: 131-144, DOI: 10.3897/phytokeys.259.145861
3CFD05AF7E9256599E389CD52D31C602.taxon	description	Description. Plants terrestrial. Leaves 5 – 6, basal, oblong, 5 – 8 × 1.6 – 1.9 cm, apex acute and slightly 2 - lobed, adaxially tessellated with pale green and pale yellowish green, abaxially densely spotted with purple, base contracted into petiole shape. Scape erect, up to 5.3 – 7.1 cm long, purple, densely shortly hirsute, 1 - flowered, terminal; bract broadly ovate, 2.1 – 2.3 × 1.6 – 1.8 cm, margin ciliate; pedicel and ovary 2.6 – 3.1 cm long, pubescent. Flower 5.7 – 6.2 cm in diam.; dorsal sepal and synsepal white with green veins; petals pale yellowish white, flushed with purplish red, with a few large maroon warts mainly in basal half; lip purplish red with purplish brown veins, margin pale yellowish white; staminode pale yellow with green veins and flushed with pale purplish red. Dorsal sepal obcordate, 3.2 – 3.5 × 2.6 – 2.7 cm, apex acuminate, abaxially pubescent, margin ciliate; synsepal ovate, 3.2 – 3.4 × 1.8 – 2 cm, apex acute, abaxially pubescent, margin ciliate. Petals obovate-oblong, 4.4 – 4.7 × 1.6 – 1.8 cm, apex obtuse or subacute, margins long-ciliate; lip helmet-shaped, 2.4 – 2.7 cm long; lateral lobes without verruca or slightly verrucose; pouch 1.4 – 1.6 × 1 – 1.1 cm, slightly narrowed toward base, with triangular auriculas on both sides of its mouth, margins erect at mouth apex, villose at inner bottom, minutely papillate-puberulent outside. Staminode reniform-obcordate, 2.9 – 3.2 × 5 – 5.3 mm, with a sinus at apex, sinus with mucro at middle, adaxially finely papillate.	en	Tang, Feng-Xia, Rao, Wen-Hui, Zhang, Ze, Wu, Xin-Yi, Wang, Meng, Li, Jian, Chen, Jie-Shan, Duan, Xiao-Juan, Wang, Mei-Na (2025): Paphiopedilum motuoense (Orchidaceae, Cypripedioideae), a new species from Motuo, Xizang, China. PhytoKeys 259: 131-144, DOI: 10.3897/phytokeys.259.145861
3CFD05AF7E9256599E389CD52D31C602.taxon	etymology	Etymology. The species epithet “ motuoense ” refers to the locality name of type specimen of this new species, Motuo County, Linzhi City, Xizang, China.	en	Tang, Feng-Xia, Rao, Wen-Hui, Zhang, Ze, Wu, Xin-Yi, Wang, Meng, Li, Jian, Chen, Jie-Shan, Duan, Xiao-Juan, Wang, Mei-Na (2025): Paphiopedilum motuoense (Orchidaceae, Cypripedioideae), a new species from Motuo, Xizang, China. PhytoKeys 259: 131-144, DOI: 10.3897/phytokeys.259.145861
3CFD05AF7E9256599E389CD52D31C602.taxon	distribution	Distribution and habitat. Paphiopedilum motuoense is currently known only from the type locality Motuo County, Xizang, China. It is terrestrial in humus-rich places and semi-epiphytic in the humus of rocky places in forest margins at elevations of 800 m.	en	Tang, Feng-Xia, Rao, Wen-Hui, Zhang, Ze, Wu, Xin-Yi, Wang, Meng, Li, Jian, Chen, Jie-Shan, Duan, Xiao-Juan, Wang, Mei-Na (2025): Paphiopedilum motuoense (Orchidaceae, Cypripedioideae), a new species from Motuo, Xizang, China. PhytoKeys 259: 131-144, DOI: 10.3897/phytokeys.259.145861
