Selenipedium dodsonii

{{Short description|Species of flowering plant}}

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| status = EN

| status_system = IUCN3.1

| status_ref = {{Cite journal|last=Rankou|first=H.|date=2016|title=IUCN Red List of Threatened Species: Selenipedium dodsonii|url=https://www.iucnredlist.org/en|access-date=2021-06-25|website=IUCN Red List of Threatened Species|doi=10.2305/iucn.uk.2016-1.rlts.t86250738a86250758.en|doi-access=free}}

| genus = Selenipedium

| species = dodsonii

| authority = P.J.Cribb

| synonyms = Selenipedium garayanum Szlach. & Kolan.

| synonyms_ref = {{Cite web|title=Selenipedium dodsonii P.J.Cribb|url=http://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:77154820-1|access-date=2021-06-25|website=Plants of the World Online|publisher=Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew}}

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Selenipedium dodsonii is a species of flowering plant in the orchid family native to Ecuador, where it grows near rivers in rainforest. It was first described in 2015,{{Cite web|last=Cheek|first=Martin|date=2015-12-29|title=Kew's successful year of discoveries|url=https://www.kew.org/read-and-watch/successful-year-of-discoveries|access-date=2021-06-25|website=www.kew.org|publisher=Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew}} and is named after Calaway Dodson. Selenipedium dodsonii is an endangered species, and is listed in Annex II to the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES).{{Cite web|title=Selenipedium dodsonii|url=https://cites.org/eng/taxonomy/term/37277|access-date=2021-06-25|website=cites.org}} Plants grow up to {{Convert|3|m|ft|1|abbr=on}} tall, and between April and November produce small flowers.{{Cite journal|last1=Cribb|first1=Phillip|last2=Schiuteman|first2=André|date=2015-09-03|title=A new species of Selenipedium (Orchidaceae: Cypripedioideae) from Ecuador|url=https://revistas.ucr.ac.cr/index.php/lankesteriana/article/view/21109|journal=Lankesteriana|volume=15 |issue=3 |language=en|doi=10.15517/lank.v15i3.21109|issn=2215-2067|doi-access=free}}