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Type? of Cypripedium californicum A.Gray [family ORCHIDACEAE]

Lemmon, G.; Mrs. Austin, #12154
None
Specimens
United States
PH
Type? of Cypripedium californicum A.Gray [family ORCHIDACEAE] (stored under name)
Type? of Cypripedium californicum A.Gray [family ORCHIDACEAE]

Isotype of Cypripedium californicum A. Gray [family ORCHIDACEAE]

H. N. Bolander, #6474
1866-01-01
Specimens
United States
NY
Isotype of Cypripedium californicum A. Gray [family ORCHIDACEAE] (stored under name)

Isotype of Cypripedium californicum A. Gray [family ORCHIDACEAE]

H. N. Bolander, #6474
1866-01-01
Specimens
United States
NY
Isotype of Cypripedium californicum A. Gray [family ORCHIDACEAE] (stored under name)

Isotype of Cypripedium californicum A. Gray [family ORCHIDACEAE]

H. N. Bolander, #6474
1866-01-01
Specimens
United States
NY
Isotype of Cypripedium californicum A. Gray [family ORCHIDACEAE] (stored under name)

Type of Cypripedium californicum Gray [family ORCHIDACEAE]

J.G. Lemmon, #s.n.
None
Specimens
United States
RSA
Type of Cypripedium californicum Gray [family ORCHIDACEAE] (stored under name)

Cypripedium [family ORCHIDACEAE]

Flora of North America, Vol 26,
Flora of North America (FNA)
Reference Sources
Herbs, perennial. Roots closely to widely spaced along rhizome, slender, fleshy; rhizomes short to elongate. Stems leafy or scapose. Leaves alternate, in single radical pair, or subopposite near midpoint of stem, ascending to spreading, plicate, bases sheathing stem. Inflorescences terminal, solitary; flowers solitary or 2–several in lax racemose spike; bracts large, foliaceous. Flowers resupinate, showy; sepals distinct or lateral sepals usually connate proximal to lip forming synsepal; petals entire; lip inflated, slipper- or sac-shaped, with adaxial orifice; pollinaria absent; loose granular pollen in 2 lateral anthers, dorsal anther a large subapical staminode; stigma free, 2–3-lobed. Fruits capsules, ellipsoid to oblong-ellipsoid.

Cypripedium californicum A. Gray [family ORCHIDACEAE]

Flora of North America, Vol 26,
Flora of North America (FNA)
Reference Sources
Plants erect, 25–120 cm. Leaves 5–10, along length of stem, alternate, ascending to spreading; blade elliptic-lanceolate to broadly elliptic, 5–16 × 1.5–6.5 cm. Flowers 3–18(–22); sepals yellow-green to pale brownish yellow; dorsal sepal elliptic, 14–20 × 7–13 mm; lateral sepals connate almost to apex; synsepal 12–20 × 10–12 mm; petals spreading, same color as sepals or more yellowish, linear-oblong to linear-lanceolate, flat, 14–16 × 3–5 mm; lip white, sometimes pinkish, obovoid, 15–20 mm; orifice basal, 11–14 mm; staminode suborbicular-subauriform.