Plant Details

Accepted name:: Cypripedium calceolus L. [Orchidaceae]
Source:: World Checklist ( High Taxonomic Confidence )
More about this plant:: Plants of the World Online

Non-scientific name:	Class of name:	Medicinal source:
gelber frauenschuh	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999)
guckusko	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999)
lady's-slipper	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999)
lady's-slipper orchid	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999)
lady’s slipper orchids	Other	Food & Med. in Rural Sweden, Ukraine & NW Russia (Stryamets et al., 2015)
marien-frauenschuh	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999)
sabot de vénus	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999)
венерин башмачок	Other	Food & Med. in Rural Sweden, Ukraine & NW Russia (Stryamets et al., 2015)

Part(s) of plant used:	Drug form:	Medicinal source:

Kew's taxonomic resources include 17 scientific synonym(s) for this plant:

Calceolus alternifolius St.-Lag. Ann. Soc. Bot. Lyon 7: 62 (1880).
Calceolus marianus Crantz Gard. Dict. Abr., ed. 4.: [s.p.] (1754).
Cypripedilon marianus (Crantz) Rouy J. Bot. (Morot) 8: 58 (1894).
Cypripedium alternifolium St.-Lag. Ann. Soc. Bot. Lyon 7: 62, 124 (1880), nom. illeg.
Cypripedium atsmori C.Morren Belgique Hort. 1: 171 (1851).
Cypripedium boreale Salisb. Prodr. Stirp. Chap. Allerton: 10 (1796), nom. illeg.
Cypripedium calceolus var. bellum Chmiel Nase príroda 2013(6): 16 (2013), no type indicated.
Cypripedium calceolus proles biflorum Rouy in G.Rouy & J.Foucaud, Fl. France 13: 89 (1912).
Cypripedium calceolus var. biflorum Rouy in G.Rouy & J.Foucaud, Fl. France 13: 90 (1912).
Cypripedium calceolus var. citrinum B.Hergt Mitth. Thüring. Bot. Vereins, n.f., 13-14: 120, 127 (1899).
Cypripedium calceolus f. grandifolium Bolzon Nuovo Giorn. Bot. Ital., n.s., 21: 174 (1914).
Cypripedium calceolus proles triflorum Rouy in G.Rouy & J.Foucaud, Fl. France 14: 516 (1913).
Cypripedium calceolus var. viridiflorum M.Schulze Mitth. Thüring. Bot. Vereins, n.f., 17: 39 (1902).
Cypripedium cruciatum Dulac Fl. Hautes-Pyrénées: 128 (1867), nom. superfl.
Cypripedium ferrugineum Gray Nat. Arr. Brit. Pl. 2: 213 (1821 publ. 1822), nom. superfl.
Cypripedium guttatum subsp. microsaccos (Kraenzl.) Soó Ann. Univ. Sci. Budapest. Rolando Eötvös, Sect. Biol. 11: 54 (1969).
Cypripedium microsaccos Kraenzl. Russk. Bot. Zhurn. 1913: 58 (1913).

This plant is cited in medicinal sources using the following names:

Name as published:	Medicinal source:
Cypripedium calceolus L.	Food & Med. in Rural Sweden, Ukraine & NW Russia (Stryamets et al., 2015) GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999) World Checklist of Useful Pl. Spp. (Diazgranados et al., 2020) World Dictionary of Med. & Pois. Pl. (Quattrocchi, 2012)
Cypripedium calcolus L.	Pl. Med. Totius Mundi (Penso & Proserpio, 1997)

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