Cypripedium calcicolum Schltr. 1924
Plant and Flowers in situ China Photos by Ernst Gügel ©
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Common Name or Meaning The Lime Living Cypripedium - In China He Yua Shao Lan
Flower Size 4" [10 cm]
Found in Shanxi, Sichuan and Yunnan province China in rocky, moist locales in forests and thickets at elevations of 2600 to 3900 meters as a small sized, cool to cold growing terrestrial with an erect, usually pubescent stem carrying3 to 4, elliptic, almost glabrous leaves that blooms in the late spring and early summer on an erect, terminal, single flowered inflorescencewith a leaf-like, ovate-lanceolate bract.
Synonyms Cypripedium smithii Schltr. 1924
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Native Orchids of China in Colour Singchi, Zhanhuo and Yibo 1999 photo fide as C smithii; Orchids of Huanglong Perner, Tang Si-Yuan 2007 photos fide; A Field Guide to the Orchids of China Singchi, Zhongjian, Yibo, Xiaohua and Zhanhuo 2009 photo fide; Flora of China Vol 25 Zhengyi, Raven & Deyuan 2009; The Wild Orchids in Yunnan Xu Xiang Ye & Liu 2010 photos fide;
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