Cypripedium acaule

Life-forms

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.

Additional references

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

Global Biodiversity Information Facility. 2020. GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset. Taxon: Cypripedium acaule. Accessed: 2020 Sep 2.
Govaerts, R. et al. 2020. 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: 2020 Sep 2. Reference page.
Govaerts, R. et al. 2020. Cypripedium acaule in World Checklist of Selected Plant Families. The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Published on the internet. Accessed: 2020 Sep 2. Reference page.
International Plant Names Index. 2020. Cypripedium acaule. Published online. Accessed: 2 Sep 2020.
The Plant List 2013. Cypripedium acaule in The Plant List Version 1.1. Published on the internet. Accessed: 2020 Sep 2.
Tropicos.org 2020. Cypripedium acaule. Missouri Botanical Garden. Published on the internet. Accessed: 2020 Sep 2. ]

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