Cypripedium elegans

Species of orchid

Cypripedium elegans
Conservation status

Endangered  (IUCN 3.1)
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Monocots
Order: Asparagales
Family: Orchidaceae
Subfamily: Cypripedioideae
Genus: Cypripedium
Species:
C. elegans
Binomial name
Cypripedium elegans
Rchb.f. (1886)[1]
Synonyms[3]

Coelogyne elegans Rchb.f.[2]

Cypripedium elegans is a lady's-slipper orchid found in Nepal, Bhutan, the Indian Himalayas, Tibet, and Yunnan.[4][3] It grows in thickets, forest margins and humus rich soil in forests.[4]

References

  1. ^ Rchb. f. Flora 69: 561 1886
  2. ^ Rchb. f. Flora 561 1886
  3. ^ a b "World Checklist of Selected Plant Families: Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew". wcsp.science.kew.org.
  4. ^ a b "Cypripedium elegans in Flora of China @ efloras.org". www.efloras.org. Retrieved 2022-07-07.
  • Media related to Cypripedium elegans at Wikimedia Commons
  • Data related to Cypripedium elegans at Wikispecies
  • Flowers of India, Elegant Slipper Orchid
  • Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Herbarium Jany Renz
Taxon identifiers
Cypripedium elegans


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