Cypripedium micranthum Franch.

Small flowered cypripedium (en)

Species

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Characteristics

Plants 8-10 cm tall, with a slender, creeping rhizome. Stem erect, 2-6 cm, glabrous, with 2 or 3 sheaths at base and a subopposite leaf and bract. Leaf and bract spreading horizontally or nearly prostrate on substrate; blade elliptic or obovate-elliptic, 7-9 × 3.5-6 cm, glabrous, apex mucronate. Inflorescence terminal, erect, with 1 flower, ebracteate; pedicel 2-5 cm, continuously elongating at fruiting, densely reddish villous; ovary 5-6 mm, densely reddish villous. Flower small, with blackish purple spots and short stripes on sepals and petals and red spots and stripes on lip and tinged with white around its mouth. Dorsal sepal ovate, 1.2-1.7 × 0.8-1 cm, concave, abaxially densely purple villous, apex acute or mucronate; synsepal elliptic, 1-1.3 × 0.8-0.9 cm, abaxially villous, apex shallowly 2-lobed. Petals ovate-elliptic, 1.3-1.4 × 0.5-0.8 cm, glabrous, apex acute; lip pouched, conspicuously dorsiventrally compressed, subellipsoid, ca. 1 cm, papillate on front surface. Staminode broadly orbicular or subsquare, ca. 3 mm, base slightly auriculate. Fl. May-Jun.
Life form perennial
Growth form herb
Growth support free-standing
Foliage retention deciduous
Sexuality hermaphrodite
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Mature height (meter) 0.08 - 0.1
Root system rhizome
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Usage

Uses medicinal
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Cultivation

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Germination duration (days) 30 - 365
Germination temperacture (C°) 18 - 21
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Distribution

Cypripedium micranthum world distribution map, present in China

Conservation status

Cypripedium micranthum threat status: Endangered

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:625854-1
WFO ID wfo-0000935530
COL ID 33J6V
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Synonyms

Cypripedium micranthum