Calypso (Orchidaceae)

Vernacular names [edit wikidata 'Calypso']

English: Fairy slipper
башҡортса: Калипсо
Deutsch: Norne
español: Zapatilla de Venus
suomi: Neidonkengät
日本語: ホテイラン属
norsk nynorsk: Norneslekta
русский: Калипсо луковичная
svenska: Norna
удмурт: Калипсо
українська: Каліпсо
中文: 布袋兰属
中文（中国大陆）: 布袋兰属
中文（简体）: 布袋兰属
中文（臺灣）: 布袋蘭屬

APG IV Classification: Domain: Eukaryota • (unranked): Archaeplastida • Regnum: Plantae • Cladus: Angiosperms • Cladus: monocots • Ordo: Asparagales • Familia: Orchidaceae • Subfamilia: Epidendroideae • Tribus: Calypsoeae • Genus: Calypso (Orchidaceae) Salisb. (1806)

Genus Calypso Salisb. (1806) edit

Synonyms
Homotypic synonyms Cytherea Salisb., Trans. Hort. Soc. London 1: 301 (1812) Heterotypic synonyms Calypsodium Link, Handbuch 1: 252. (1829) Norna Wahlenb., Fl. Suecica 2: 561. (1826) Orchidium Sw. in J. W. Palmstruch, Svensk Bot. Tidskr. 8: t. 518. (1816)

1 Species edit

Monotypic taxon

Calypso bulbosa
Calypso bulbosa var. occidentalis

Native distribution areas

Reference: Brummitt, R.K. (2001) TDGW - World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions, 2^nd Edition

Asia-Temperate
- China
  - China North-Central, China South-Central, Inner Mongolia, Manchuria, Tibet.
- Eastern Asia
  - Japan, Korea.
- Mongolia
  - Mongolia.
- Russian Far East
  - Amur, Khabarovsk, Primorye, Sakhalin.
- Siberia
  - Buryatiya, Irkutsk, Krasnoyarsk, West Siberia.
Europe
- Eastern Europe
  - Baltic States, Central European Russia, East European Russia, North European Russia, Northwest European Russia.
- Northern Europe
  - Finland, Sweden.
Northern America
- Eastern Canada
  - Labrador, New Brunswick, Newfoundland, Nova Scotia, Ontario, Prince Edward Isle, Québec.
- North-Central U.S.A.
  - Minnesota, South Dakota, Wisconsin.
- Northeastern U.S.A.
  - Maine, Michigan, New Hampshire, New York, Vermont.
- Northwestern U.S.A.
  - Colorado, Idaho, Montana, Oregon, Washington, Wyoming.
- South-Central U.S.A.
  - New Mexico.
- Southwestern U.S.A.
  - Arizona, California, Utah.
- Subarctic America
  - Alaska, Aleutian Islands, Northwest Territories, Nunavut, Yukon.
- Western Canada
  - Alberta, British Columbia, Manitoba, Saskatchewan.

References edit

Description of taxon

Salisb. (1806) The Paradisus Londinensis, ad pl. 89.

Selected Bibliography

Pridgeon, A.M., Cribb, P.J., Chase, M.W. & Rasmussen, F.N. (eds.) (2006) Genera Orchidacearum Volume 4 Epidendroideae (Part one); page 93 ff., Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 0198507127

Selected Weblinks

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