Cypripedium acaule

Cypripedium acaule

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Asparagales
Classification System: APG IV Superregnum: Eukaryota Regnum: Plantae Cladus: Angiosperms Cladus: Monocots Ordo: Asparagales

Familia: Orchidaceae
Subfamilia: Cypripedioideae
Genus: Cypripedium
Subgenus: Cypripedium subg. Cypripedium
Sectio: Cypripedium sect. Acaulia
Species: Cypripedium acaule

Name

Cypripedium acaule Aiton, Hort. Kew. 3: 303 (1789)

Synonymy

• Homotypic
  • Fissipes acaulis (Aiton) Small, Fl. S.E. U.S.: 311 (1903)
• Heterotypic
  • Cypripedium hirsutum Mill., Gard. Dict. ed. 8: 3 (1768), nom. rej.
  • Cypripedium humile Salisb., Trans. Linn. Soc. London 1: 79 (1793)
  • Cypripedium acaule f. albiflora E.L.Rand & Redfield, Fl. Mt. Desert Isl.: 154 (1894)
  • Calceolus hirsutus (Mill.) Nieuwl., Amer. Midl. Naturalist 3: 118 (1913)
  • Fissipes hirsuta (Mill.) Farw., Druggists ' Circular 61: 230 (1917)
  • Fissipes acaulis f. lancifolia House, Bull. New York State Mus. Nat. Hist. 219-220: 242 (1920)
  • Cypripedium acaule f. lancifolia House, Bull. New York State Mus. Nat. Hist. 254: 236 (1924)
  • Fissipes hirsuta f. albiflora (E.L.Rand & Redfield) Farw., Pap. Michigan Acad. Sci. 23: 128 (1938)
  • Cypripedium acaule f.biflorum P.M.Br., N. Amer. Native Orchid J. 1: 197 (1995)

Distribution

Native distribution areas:

Northern America Eastern Canada New Brunswick, Newfoundland, Nova Scotia, Ontario, Prince Edward Isle, Québec. North-Central U.S.A. Illinois, Minnesota, Wisconsin. Northeastern U.S.A. Connecticut, Indiana, Maine, Masachusettes, Michigan, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Rhode Isle, Vermont, West Virginia. Southeastern U.S.A. Alabama, Delaware, District of Columbia, Georgia, Kentucky, Maryland, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia. Subarctic America Northwest Territories. Western Canada Alberta, Manitoba, Saskatchewan. References: Brummitt, R.K. 2001. TDWG – World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions, 2nd Edition

References

Primary references

• Aiton, W. 1789. Hortus Kewensis, or, A catalogue of the plants cultivated in the Royal Botanic Garden at Kew. 3: 303.

• Cribb, P. 1997. The Genus Cypripedium. Portland, Oregon: Timber Press ("Botanical Magazine Monographs"); Royal Botanical Gardens, Kew. ISBN 0-88192-403-2
• Eccarius, W. 2009. Die Orchideengattung Cypripedium. Phylogenie, Taxonomie, Morphologie, Biologie, Verbreitung, Ökologie, Hybridisation. Bürgel, Germany: EchinoMedia Verlag Dr. Kerstin Ramm, 384 pp. ISBN 978-3-937107-19-6 Reference page. 
• Pridgeon, A.M., Cribb, P.J., Chase, M.W. & Rasmussen, F.N. (eds.) 1999. Genera Orchidacearum Volume 1: General Introduction, Apostasioideae, Cypripedioideae; page 114 ff., Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-198505-13-2
  

Links

• Govaerts, R. et al. 2019. Cypripedium acaule in Kew Science Plants of the World online. The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Published on the internet. Accessed: 2019 September 28. Reference page. 
• Govaerts, R. et al. 2019. Cypripedium acaule in World Checklist of Selected Plant Families. The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Published on the internet. Accessed: 2019 September 28.
• International Plant Names Index. 2019. Cypripedium acaule. Published online. Accessed 28 September 2019.
• The Plant List 2013. Cypripedium acaule in The Plant List Version 1.1. Published on the internet. Accessed: 2019 September 28.
• Tropicos.org 2019. Cypripedium acaule . Missouri Botanical Garden. Published on the internet. Accessed: 2019 September 28.

Vernacular names

azərbaycanca: Gövdəsiz zöhəçiçəyi
Deutsch: Stängelloser Frauenschuh
English: Pink lady's slipper
español: Sandalias de la Virgen
فارسی: کیپریپدیوم اکوله
français: Cypripède acaule
русский: Башмачок бесстебельный

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