Cypripedium lentiginosum P.J.Cribb & S.C.Chen

Freckled cypripedium (en)

Species

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Characteristics

Plants 7-11 cm tall, with a stout, creeping rhizome. Stem erect, 3-7 cm, covered by 2 tubular sheaths, apex with a subopposite leaf and bract prostrate on substrate. Leaf blade dark green, heavily spotted with black, sometimes with a purplish margin, ovate, obovate, or suborbicular, ca. 16 × 14 cm. Inflorescence terminal, 1-flowered, ebracteate; pedicel 3-4 cm, glabrous; ovary ca. 1.6 cm, glabrous. Dorsal sepal and synsepal liver-colored; petals and lip off-white, creamy white, or yellowish, marked with maroon spots; staminode liver-colored. Dorsal sepal elliptic-ovate, ca. 6 × 2.5-3 cm, subglabrous, apex acute; synsepal lanceolate, ca. 5 × 1 cm, ciliate, apex acute. Petals incurved forward, enfolding lip, obliquely oblong-lanceolate, ca. 6.2 × 1.9 cm, concave, abaxially pubescent on upper side, sparsely ciliate, apex acuminate; lip pouched, dorsiventrally flattened, ca. 3 × 2.5 cm, minutely papillate on front surface. Staminode trullate, ca. 1 cm, papillose toward adaxial apex, rounded at apex. Fl. May.
Life form perennial
Growth form herb
Growth support free-standing
Foliage retention deciduous
Sexuality hermaphrodite
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Mature height (meter) 0.07 - 0.11
Root system rhizome
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Germination duration (days) 30 - 365
Germination temperacture (C°) 18 - 21
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Distribution

Cypripedium lentiginosum world distribution map, present in China and Viet Nam

Conservation status

Cypripedium lentiginosum threat status: Critically Endangered

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:1007916-1
WFO ID wfo-0000935464
COL ID 33J6G
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Synonyms

Cypripedium daweishanense Cypripedium malipoense Cypripedium lentiginosum Cypripedium lichiangense var. daweishanense Cypripedium lichiangense subsp. lentiginosum