Cypripedium calceolus L. 1753 SECTION Cypripedium SUBSECTION Cypripedium
Photo by Jan H. Larsen KJ Orchids Denmark
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Common Name The Limestone Loving Cypripedium - In China Shao Lan
Flower Size 2" [5 cm]
Found in Great Britain, Norway, Sweden, Finland, Denmark, Beligium, Germany, Poland, Austria, Czechloslavakia, Hungary, Switzerland, Spain, France, Italy, Yugoslavia, Greece, Bulgaria, Romania, Ukraine, Russia, eastern Russia, Mongolia, China, Japan and Korea in part shade on moist alkaline substrates in scrub and open to dense woodlands at elevations up to 2000 meter as a small to medium sized, cold growing terrestrial with a glandular hairy stem provided with several basal sheaths and carrying 3 to 5, oval-lanceolate, slightly plicate, obtuse leaves that blooms in the spring and summer on a terminal, 14" [35 cm] long, 1 to 2, rarely 3, flowered inflorescence with foliaceous, elliptic-lanceolate, pubescent, much longer than the ovary floral bracts.
Synonyms Calceolus alternifolius St.-Lag. 1880; Calceolus marianus Crantz 1769; Cypripedium alternifolium St.-Lag. 1880; Cypripedium atsmori C.Morren 1851; Cypripedium boreale Salisb 1796; Cypripedium calceolus f. biflorum Rouy 1912; Cypripedium calceolus f. triflorum Rouy 1913; Cypripedium calceolus var. citrina B.Hergt 1899; Cypripedium calceolus var. viridiflora M.Schulze 1902; Cypripedium cruciatum Dulac 1867; Cypripedium ferrugineum Gray 1821; Cypripedium guttatum subsp. microsaccos (Kraenzl.) Soó 1969; Cypripedilon marianus (Crantz) Rouy 1894; Cypripedium microsaccos Kraenzl. 1913
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Die Orchideen Schlechter 1915 photo ok; Atlas des Orchidees Cultivees Constantin 1920 drawing fide; Encyclopedia of Cultivated Orchids Hawkes 1965; AOS Bulletin Vol 36 #3 1967 photo fide; Die Orchideen 3 Auflage Bd 1 Sonderabdruck aus Schlechter Lieferung 4 193 to 256 Brieger, Maatsch and Senghas 1971 drawing ok/photo plant only; Die Orchideen 3 Auflage Bd 1 Sonderabdruck aus Schlechter Lieferung 4 193 to 256 Brieger, Maatsch and Senghas 1971 as C microsaccus; Orquideologia Vol 14 No 1 1979 photo fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 50 No 6 1981 photo; AOS Bulletin Vol 50 No 7 1981 Photo fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 50 No 7 1981 as C calceolus f sachaliensis Photo fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 50 No 10 1981 photo fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 56 No 1 1987 stamp fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 56 # 5 1987 photo fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 56 No 6 1987 photo fide; Schlechteriana Vol 2 No 2 1991 photo fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 61 No 5/442/444 1992 photo fide; The Manual of Cultivated Orchids Bechtel, Cribb, Launert 1992 photo fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 62 No 10 1993 postage stamp fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 65 No 11 1996 photo fide; Lindleyana Vol 15 No 4 2000; Rudolf Schlechter Die Orchideen Band 1C lieferung 40 pg 2492 - 2564 Brieger 2000; Lindleyana Vol 16 No 3 2001; Orchids of Europe, North Africa and the Middle east Delforge 2005; AOS Bulletin Vol 76 No 9 2007 photo fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 77 No 11 2008 photo fide; Flora of China Vol 25 Zhengyi, Raven & Deyuan 2009; AOS Bulletin Vol 79 #1 2010 drawing fide; Flora of China Vol 25 Illustrations Zhengyi, Raven & Deyuan 2010 drawing fide; Orchideen Series C Band 74 Thiv & Worz 2012 photo fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 83 #11 2014 drawing fide; Orchid Digest Vol 79 #1 2015 photo fide; ; Of Mice and Men Part 1 Jenny 2015 drawing/photo fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 86 #5 2017 photo fide; LANKESTERIANA 17(3) 2017; Orchid Digest Vol 82 #1 2018 photo fide; Orchid Digest Vol 82 #2 2018 Photo fide; Atlas of Native Orchids of China Vol 1 Jin Xiaohua, Li Jianwu and Ye Deping 2019 photo fide; Orchid Digest Vol 84 #1 2020 photo fide;
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