Cypripedium calceolus

Cypripedium calceolus

Kingdom:	Plantae
Division:	Magnoliophyta
Class:	Liliopsida
Order:	Asparagales
Family:	Orchidaceae
Genus:	Cypripedium
Species:	C. Plants are living Organisms belonging to the kingdom Plantae. The flowering plants or angiosperms ( Angiospermae or Magnoliophyta) are the most widespread group Liliopsida is a Botanical name for the class containing the family Liliaceae (or Lily Family Asparagales is an order of Flowering plants The order must include the family Asparagaceae, but other families included in the order have varied markedly Cypripedium is a Genus of 47 species from the Orchid family (Orchidaceae and the sole genus of the Subtribe Cypripediinae. calceolus

Binomial name

Cypripedium calceolus
L.

Cypripedium calceolus is a Lady's Slipper orchid. Carl Linnaeus (Latinized as Carolus Linnaeus, also known after his ennoblement as, May 23 new style (13 May old style 1707 who laid the foundations for Lady Slippers (aka Lady's Slipper, Lady's-slipper, Ladyslipper) is a term used to describe the orchids in the subfamily Cypripedioidea

It is a widespread plant worldwide, found from Europe east through Asia to the Pacific Ocean. It is found in open woodland on moist calcareous soils. It has declined over much of the European part of its range, and as a result is legally protected in a number of countries.

In Britain it was formerly a reasonably widespread plant across northern England. By the late 20th century, it had declined to just a single plant Grass Wood in Wharfedale, Yorkshire,^[1] discovered in 1933, and still alive in 2003. Grass Wood is an 88 Hectare woodland in Wharfedale, Yorkshire, England. Wharfedale is one of the Yorkshire Dales in England. It is the valley of the River Wharfe. Yorkshire is a historic county of Northern England and the largest in Great Britain. A reintroduction program has led to a population of hundreds of plants as of 2003. ^[2]

The Norwegian municipality of Snåsa has a Cypripendium calceolus in its coat-of-arms. Snåsa ( Southern Sami: Snåase is a municipality in the county of Nord-Trøndelag, Norway.

Cypripedium calceolus sensu stricto ("in the strict sense") does not occur in North America. The closely related Cypripedium parviflorum and C. pubescens are often still referred to as subspecies or variety of C. Cypripedium pubescens ( American valerian, Greater yellow lady's slipper, Large yellow lady's slipper, Moccasin Flower, Nerveroot calceolus.

References

^ Twist, Colin Rare Plants in Great Britain - a site guide
^ Phillip Cribb (July 2003). Orchid Research Newsletter No. 42.

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