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1. Calypso bulbosa (Linnaeus) Oakes, Nat. Hist. Vermont.  1: 200.  1842.   
 
 
 
Cypripedium bulbosum Linnaeus, Sp. Pl. 2: 951.  1753; Cytherea bulbosa (Linnaeus) House 
Plants 4.5–22 cm.  Leaves: blade elliptic to suborbiculate or ovate, often cordate, 10–65 × 12–52 mm.  Inflorescences: floral bracts lance-acuminate, 5–28 mm.  Flowers pink, magenta, or rarely white; sepals and petals erect-spreading, linear-lanceolate to linear-oblong, 10–24 × 1.5–5 mm; lip 13–23 × 4–13 mm, lamina shorter than to longer than apical horns, basal bristles sparse to extensive, brightly and contrastingly colored to dull and obscure.  Capsules erect, ellipsoid to lanceoloid, 2–3 × 1–1.5 cm.  2n = 28 [var.  bulbosa]. 
Varieties 3 (2 in the flora): circumpolar, North America, Europe, Asia (China, Japan, Russia). 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
                        
                         
		
                          
                          
			
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  Bristles of lip yellow, extensive; lamina white or suffused with pink, usually equaling or longer than horns. | 
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  1a var. americana | 
 
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  Bristles of lip whitish or color of lamina, sparse; lamina commonly with reddish markings on dull white, usually shorter than horns. | 
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  1b var. occidentalis | 
 
 
 
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