This hemicryptophyte plant starts blooming in the spring time and has one flower per inflorescence.

Paphiopedilum malipoense is found in northern Vietnam and southern China at the elevation of 570 to 1600 meters.

It is found growing on limestone cliffs with leaf litter.

[1] The area where this plant is found is subjected to heavy fog in the winter and rain in the early spring and summer.

[2] This plant does best in wet areas but moss near the roots would lower the pH to much sins it lives on lime rocks in the wild.