Cypripedium calceolus L.

Native to:

Algeria, Altay, Amur, Austria, Baltic States, Belarus, Bulgaria, Buryatiya, Central European Russia, Chita, Czechia-Slovakia, Denmark, East European Russia, Finland, France, Germany, Great Britain, Hungary, Inner Mongolia, Irkutsk, Italy, Japan, Khabarovsk, Korea, Krasnoyarsk, Krym, Manchuria, Mongolia, North European Russia, Northwest European Russia, Norway, NW. Balkan Pen., Poland, Primorye, Romania, Sakhalin, South European Russia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Tuva, Ukraine, West Siberia, Yakutiya

Extinct in:

Belgium

Recorded in error in:

Greece

POWO follows these authorities in accepting this name:

• Castroviejo, S. & al. (eds.) (2005). Flora Iberica 21: 1-366. Real Jardín Botánico, CSIC, Madrid.
• Chang, C.S., Kim, H. & Chang, K.S. (2014). Provisional checklist of vascular plants for the Korea peninsula flora (KPF): 1-660. DESIGNPOST.
• Dimopoulos, P., Raus, T., Bergmeier, E., Constantinidis, T., Iatrou, G., Kokkini, S., Strid, A., & Tzanoudakis, D. (2013). Vascular plants of Greece. An annotated checklist: 1-372. Botanic gardens and botanical museum Berlin-Dahlem, Berlin and Hellenic botanical society, Athens.
• Forsyth, S. (2020). First wild slipper orchid in Africa. The Orchid Review 128: 6.
• G.I.R.O.S. (2009). Orchidee d'Italia: 1-303. Il Castello srl, Italy.
• Govaerts, R. (1999). World Checklist of Seed Plants 3(1, 2a & 2b): 1-1532. MIM, Deurne.
• Govaerts, R. (2003). World Checklist of Monocotyledons Database in ACCESS: 1-71827. The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
• Hassler, M. & Muer, T. (2022). Flora Germanica: alle Farn- und Blütenpflanzen Deutschlands in Text und Bild 1: 1-864. Verlag Regionalkultur, Uberstadt-Weiher.
• Iwatsuki, K., Boufford, D.E. & Ohba, H. (2016). Flora of Japan IVb: 1-335. Kodansha Ltd., Tokyo.
• Kozhevnikov, A.E., Kozhevnikov, Z.V., Kwak, M. & Lee, B.Y. (2019). Illustrated flora of the Primorsky Territory, Russian Far East: 1-1124. National institute of biological resources.
• Kühn, R., Pedersen, H.Æ. & Cribb, P.J. (2019). Field Guide to the Orchids of Europe and the Mediterranean: 1-430. Kew Publishing, England.
• Mirek, Z., Piękoś-Mirkowa, H., Zając, A. & Zając, M (2020). Vascular plants of Poland an annotated checklist: 1-526. W. Szafer institute of botany, Polish academy of sciences, Krakow, Poland.
• Nikolin, E.G. (2020). Opredelitel' vysshikh rasteniy Yakutii: 1-895. Moskva : Tovarishchestvo Nauchnykh Izdaniy KMK Novosibirsk "Nauka".
• Stace, C. (2019). New Flora of the British Isles ed. 4: 1-1266. C & M Floristics.
• Stalažs, A. (2024). List of vascular plants of Latvia (with Latvian names): 1-312. Dobele.
• Wu, Z. & Hong, D. (eds.) (2009). Flora of China 25: 1-570. Missouri Botanical Garden Press, St. Louis.
• Zhao, Y.Z., Zhao, L.Q. & Rui, C. (eds.) (2019). Flora Intramongolica, edition 3, 6: 1-619. Typis Intramongolicae popularis, Huhhot.

Kew Species Profiles

• Marks, T.R., Seaton, P.T. & Pritchard, H.W. (2014). Desiccation tolerance, longevity and seed-siring ability of entomophilous pollen from UK native orchid species. Annals of Botany 114: 561-569.
• Nadarajan, J., Wood, S., Marks, T.R., Seaton, P.T. & Pritchard, H.W. (2011). Nutritional requirements for in vitro seed germination of 12 terrestrial, lithophytic and epiphytic orchids. Journal of Tropical Forest Science 23: 204-212.
• Popova, E., Kim, H.H., Saxena, P.K., Engelmann, F. & Pritchard, H.W. (2016). Frozen beauty: the cryobiotechnology of orchid diversity. Biotechnology Advances 34: 380-403.
• Seaton, P.T., Hu, H., Perner, H. & Pritchard, H.W. (2010). Ex Situ conservation of orchids in a warming world. The Botanical Review 76: 193-203.

Kew Backbone Distributions

• Dimopoulos, P., Raus, T., Bergmeier, E., Constantinidis, T., Iatrou, G., Kokkini, S., Strid, A., & Tzanoudakis, D. (2013). Vascular plants of Greece. An annotated checklist: 1-372. Botanic gardens and botanical museum Berlin-Dahlem, Berlin and Hellenic botanical society, Athens.
• Forsyth, S. (2020). First wild slipper orchid in Africa. The Orchid Review 128: 6.
• Stace, C. (2019). New Flora of the British Isles ed. 4: 1-1266. C & M Floristics.

Cypripedioideae: e-monocot.org

• Fay, M.F. et al. Genetic diversity in Cypripedium calceolus (Orchidaceae) with a focus on north-western Europe, as revealed by plastid DNA length polymorphisms. Annals of Botany 104, 517-25 (2009).
• Linnaeus, C. Original description of Cypripedium calceolus. (1753).at