- Family:
- Orchidaceae Juss.
- Genus:
- Cypripedium L.
Cypripedium montanum Douglas ex Lindl.

[C-EM]
- General Description
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A terrestrial herb 25-70 cm tall, growing from a short stout rhizome. Stem erect, leafy, somewhat flexuous, covered below by several tubular sheaths, four- to seven-leaved above, glandular- pubescent. Leaves spreading-ascendent, plicate, broadly ovate to elliptic-lanceolate, obtuse to shordy acuminate, 5-16 cm long, 2.5-8 cm wide, glandular-pubescent on the veins, glandularciliate. Inflorescence one- to three-flowered; peduncle 6-11 cm long, glandular-pubescent; bracts foliaceous, ovate-elliptic to broadly elliptic, acute to acuminate, 4-8.5 cm long. Flowers showy, with maroon-brown sepals and petals and a white lip, the staminode yellow with red spotting, well-spaced on rhachis; pedicel and ovary 2-3.6 cm long, densely glandular-pubescent. Dorsal sepal ascending- suberect, lanceolate to ovate-lanceolate, long-acuminate, 3-6.5 cm long, 1-1.5 cm wide, the margins somewhat undulate, pubescent on outer surface; synsepal elliptic-lanceolate, bidentate at acuminate apex, 3-6.5 cm long, 0.8-1.5 cm wide, pubescent on outer surface. Petals deflexed at 45° to horizontal, linear to linear-lanceolate, acuminate, 4.5-7 cm long, 0.3-0.6 cm wide, spirally twisted two to three times, pilose on inner surface. Lip obliquely ellipsoidal, somewhat boat-shaped, 2-3 cm long, 1.3-1.7 cm across, pilose within, the mouth small. Column short, c. 1 cm long; staminode ovate-oblong to trullate, subacute, 0.8-1.2 cm long, 0.5-0.6 cm wide, longitudinally conduplicate, glabrous.
- Ecology
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In moist and dry open woods, subalpine slopes, and sometimes in scrub oak or swamps, usually at high elevation; to 1600 m. Flowering in April to July.
- Distribution
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Canada (Vancouver Island, British Colombia, Alberta), U.S.A. (SE. Alaska, Washington, Oregon, Montana, Idaho, Colorado, Wyoming, California).
- Biology
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Flowering in April to July.
Native to:
Alaska, Alberta, British Columbia, California, Idaho, Montana, Oregon, Washington, Wyoming
Cypripedium montanum Douglas ex Lindl. appears in other Kew resources:
Date | Reference | Identified As | Barcode | Type Status | Has image? |
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Frosch, W., USA | 59749.000 | No | |||
Perner, H., USA | 60168.000 | No | |||
Crease [s.n.], Canada | K000363732 | Yes | |||
Douglas [s.n.], USA | K000363733 | Yes | |||
Douglas [s.n.], Northwestern U.S.A. | K000718631 | isotype | Yes | ||
Elves [s.n.] | K000718632 | Yes |
First published in Gen. Sp. Orchid. Pl.: 528 (1840)
Accepted by
- 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.
Literature
Cypripedioideae: e-monocot.org
- Lindley, J. Original description of Cypripedium montanum. (1840).at
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Cypripedioideae: e-monocot.org
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