Cypripedium macranthos

 Vernacular names [edit wikidata 'Cypripedium macranthos']

• English: Large-flowered Cypripedium
• azərbaycanca: Böyükgüllü zöhrəçiçəyi
• български: едроцветна пантофка
• Deutsch: Großblütiger Frauenschuh
• Schweizer Hochdeutsch: Grossblütiger Frauenschuh
• français: Sabot de Vénus à grandes fleurs
• 日本語: アツモリソウ
• қазақша: Ірі гүлді шолпанкебіс
• 한국어: 복주머니란
• polski: Obuwik wielkopłatkowy
• русский: Башмачок крупноцветковый, Адамова голова синяя, Кошельки, Кукушкины башмачки, Кукушкины сапожки, Мудушки, Сапожки Богородицы, Царь-трава
• татарча / tatarça: Эре чәчәкле кәккүк читеге
• 中文: 大花杓兰
• 中文（简体）: 大花杓兰
• 中文（臺灣）: 奇萊喜普鞋蘭

APG IV Classification: Domain: Eukaryota • (unranked): Archaeplastida • Regnum: Plantae • Cladus: Angiosperms • Cladus: monocots • Ordo: Asparagales • Familia: Orchidaceae • Subfamilia: Cypripedioideae • Genus: Cypripedium • Species: Cypripedium macranthos Sw. (1800)

(orthographic variations: • Cypripedium macranthon Sw. (1800) • Cypripedium macranthum Sw. (1800))

Synonyms

Homotypic synonyms Sacodon macranthos (Sw.) Raf., Fl. Tellur. 4: 45 (1838) Heterotypic synonyms Cypripedium calceolus var. rubrum Georgi, Bemerk. Reise Russ. Reich. 1: 232 (1775) Cypripedium thunbergii Blume, Coll. Orchid.: 169 (1859) Cypripedium speciosum Rolfe, Bull. Misc. Inform. Kew 1911: 207 (1911) Cypripedium macranthos var. flavum Mandl, Oesterr. Bot. Z. 73: 271 (1924) Cypripedium rebunense Kudô, J. Jap. Bot. 2: 251 (1925) Cypripedium macranthos var. albiflorum Makino, J. Jap. Bot. 3: 27 (1926) Cypripedium macranthos var. speciosum (Rolfe) Koidz., Bot. Mag. (Tokyo) 40: 336 (1926) Cypripedium speciosum var. albiflorum Makino, J. Jap. Bot. 3: 27 (1926) Cypripedium macranthos var. maximum Nakai, J. Jap. Bot. 16: 63 (1940) Cypripedium macranthos f. rebunense (Kudô) Ohwi, Fl. Jap.: 342 (1953) Cypripedium thunbergii f. albiflorum (Makino) Okuyama, J. Jap. Bot. 30: 42 (1955) Cypripedium macranthos f. albiflorum (Makino) Ohwi, Fl. Jap., ed. rev.: 322 (1965) Cypripedium macranthos nothof. alboroseum Aver., Turczaninowia 2: 33 (1999) Cypripedium macranthos nothof. albostriatum Aver., Turczaninowia 2: 23 (1999) Cypripedium macranthos var. atropurpureum Aver., Turczaninowia 2: 18 (1999) Cypripedium macranthos nothof. flavoroseum Aver., Turczaninowia 2: 23 (1999) Cypripedium neoparviflorum Y.N.Lee, Bull. Korea Pl. Res. 2: 31 (2002)

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Synonyms

Cypripedium macranthos var. rebunense (Kudô) Miyabe & Kudô (1932) - synonym of Cypripedium macranthos

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Botanical illustrations

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  Illustration by:
  Daniel Gottlieb
  Messerschmidt
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  plate 21
  Johann Amman:
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  plate 2938 in:
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  vol. 56,
  (1829)
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  plate 1537 in:
  Edwards's Bot. Register
  (Orchidaceae),
  vol. 18,
  (1832)
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  plate 147 in:
  Charles Antoine Lemaire:
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  (Orchidaceae),
  vol. 4,
  (1857)
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  plate 8386 in:
  Curtis's Bot. Magazine
  (Orchidaceae),
  vol. 137,
  (1911)

Native distribution areas

Reference: Brummitt, R.K. (2001) TDGW - World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions, 2nd Edition Asia-Temperate China China North-Central, Inner Mongolia, Manchuria. Eastern Asia Japan, Korea, Taiwan. Mongolia Mongolia. Russian Far East Amur, Kamchatka, Khabarovsk, Kuril Islands, Primorye, Sakhalin. Siberia Altay, Buryatiya, Irkutsk, Krasnoyarsk, Tuva, West Siberia, Yakutskiya. Europe Eastern Europe Belarus, Central European Russia, East European Russia, North European Russia.

Selected Weblinks

Wikispecies has an entry on: Cypripedium macranthos.

• Kew Gardens 'World Checklist' link : Cypripedium macranthos