Calypso bulbosa

Vernacular names [edit wikidata 'Calypso bulbosa']

• English: Calypso orchid, fairy-slipper, Fairyslipper
• مصرى: كاليبسو بولبوسا
• башҡортса: Калипсо
• čeština: Kalypso severní
• Deutsch: Norne
• español: Zapatilla de Venus
• eesti: Haldjaking
• suomi: neidonkenkä
• italiano: Calipso
• 日本語: ヒメホテイラン
• перем коми: Калипсо
• коми: Калипсо
• мокшень: Калипсо
• олык марий: Калипсо
• кырык мары: Калипсо
• Nederlands: Bosnimf
• norsk nynorsk: Plantearten norne
• português: Calypso
• русский: Калипсо луковичная
• svenska: Norna
• удмурт: Калипсо
• 中文: 布袋兰属, 布袋兰
• 中文（简体）: 布袋兰
• 中文（繁體）: 布袋蘭屬
• 中文（香港）: 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) • Species: Calypso bulbosa (L.) Oakes (1842)

Synonyms

Basionym Cypripedium bulbosum L., Sp. Pl.: 951 (1753) Homotypic synonyms Cymbidium boreale Sw., Nova Acta Regiae Soc. Sci. Upsal. 6: 76 (1799) Limodorum boreale (Sw.) Sw., Neues J. Bot. 1: 85 (1805) Calypso borealis (Sw.) Salisb., Parad. Lond.: t. 89 (1806) Cytherea borealis (Sw.) Salisb., Trans. Hort. Soc. London 1: 301 (1812) Orchidium arcticum Sw., Summa Veg. Scand.: 32 (1814) Orchidium boreale (Sw.) Sw. in J.W.Palmstruch, Sv. Bot. 8: t. 518 (1816) Calypsodium boreale (Sw.) Link, Handbuch 1: 252 (1829) Norna borealis (Sw.) Wahlenb., Fl. Suec., ed. 2: 561 (1833) Cytherea bulbosa (L.) House, Bull. Torrey Bot. Club 32: 382 (1905) Heterotypic synonyms Calypso bulbosa f. candida Hyl., Uppsala Univ. Årsskr. 7: 119 (1945)

Monotypic taxon

Images of the whole plant

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  New Mexico
  Pecos Wilderness
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  USA - Wyoming
  Yellowstone
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  Anacortes Community Forest Lands
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  Anacortes Community Forest Lands
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    Washington Park (Anacortes)
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  Washington Park (Anacortes)
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  USA - Wyoming
  Yellowstone
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  Aomori pref., Japan
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  Aomori pref., Japan
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Flowers

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  Calypso bulbosa
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  Finland - Keminmaa
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  USA - Wyoming
  Yellowstone
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  USA - Wyoming
  Yellowstone
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  USA - Wyoming
  Yellowstone
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  Niagara County Park
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  Niagara County Park
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  Niagara County Park
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  Washington Park (Anacortes)
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  Washington Park (Anacortes)
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  Washington Park (Anacortes)
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  Washington Park (Anacortes)
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  Washington Park (Anacortes)
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  Aomori pref., Japan
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  Aomori pref., Japan

Leaves

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  Anacortes Community Forest Lands
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  Anacortes Community Forest Lands
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  Anacortes Community Forest Lands
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  Washington Park (Anacortes)
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  Washington Park (Anacortes)

Botanical illustrations

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  Calypso bulbosa
  (as syn.
  Calypso borealis)
  plate 2763 in:
  Curtis's Bot. Magazine
  (Orchidaceae),
  vol. 54,
  (1827)
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  Calypso bulbosa
  (as syn.
  Calypso borealis)
  plate 3 in:
  Henry Correvon:
  Album des orchidées de l'Europe centrale et septentrionale
  Genève (1899)
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  Calypso bulbosa
  Mary Elizabeth Parsons:
  The wild flowers of California
  (1902)

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  Calypso bulbosa
  Tafel 60 in:
  Walter Müller:
  Abbildungen der in Deutschland und den angrenzenden Gebieten vorkommenden Grundformen der Orchideenarten
  Berlin (1904)

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  Calypso bulbosa
  plate 416 in:
  C.A.M Lindman:
  Bilder ur Nordens Flora
  (Orchidaceae)
  (1917-1927)
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  Calypso bulbosa
  (as syn.
  Cytherea bulbosa)
  page 86 in:
  Homer D. House:
  Wild Flowers of New York
  (Orchidaceae)
  New York (1918)

Varietates

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  Calypso bulbosa
  var. americana

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  Calypso bulbosa
  var. bulbosa

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  Calypso bulbosa
  var. occidentalis

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  Calypso bulbosa
  var. speciosa

Native distribution areas

Reference: Brummitt, R.K. (2001) TDGW - World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions, 2nd Edition Continental: Asia-Temperate Regional: China China North-Central, China South-Central, Inner Mongolia, Manchuria, Tibet. Regional: Eastern Asia Japan, Korea. Regional: Mongolia Mongolia. Regional: Russian Far East Amur, Khabarovsk, Primorye, Sakhalin. Regional: Siberia Buryatiya, Irkutsk, Krasnoyarsk, West Siberia. Continental: Europe Regional: Eastern Europe Baltic States, Central European Russia, East European Russia, North European Russia, Northwest European Russia. Regional: Northern Europe Finland, Sweden. Continental: Northern America Regional: Eastern Canada Labrador, New Brunswick, Newfoundland, Nova Scotia, Ontario, Prince Edward Isle, Québec. Regional: North-Central U.S.A. Minnesota, South Dakota, Wisconsin. Regional: Northeastern U.S.A. Maine, Michigan, New Hampshire, New York, Vermont. Regional: Northwestern U.S.A. Colorado, Idaho, Montana, Oregon, Washington, Wyoming. Regional: South-Central U.S.A. New Mexico. Regional: Southwestern U.S.A. Arizona, California, Utah. Regional: Subarctic America Alaska, Aleutian Islands, Northwest Territories, Nunavut, Yukon. Regional: Western Canada Alberta, British Columbia, Manitoba, Saskatchewan.

References

Description of taxon

• Oakes (1842) Catalogue of Vermont Plants 1: 200.

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

Wikispecies has an entry on: Calypso bulbosa.

• Kew Gardens 'World Checklist' link : Calypso bulbosa
• eMonocot link: Calypso bulbosa
• Tropicos link: Calypso bulbosa
• International Plant Names Index link: Calypso bulbosa
• The Plant List link: Calypso bulbosa