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The genus Cypripedium is in the family Orchidaceae in the major group Angiosperms (Flowering plants).

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Species in Cypripedium

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See "Status", "Confidence level", "Source" for definitions.

Name	Status	Confi­dence level	Source
Cypripedium acaule Aiton	Accepted		WCSP
Cypripedium agnicapitatum Y.N.Lee	Accepted		WCSP
Cypripedium × alaskanum P.M.Br.	Accepted		WCSP
Cypripedium × andrewsii Fuller	Accepted		WCSP
Cypripedium arietinum R.Br.	Accepted		WCSP
Cypripedium bardolphianum W.W.Sm. & Farrer	Accepted		WCSP
Cypripedium calceolus L.	Accepted		WCSP
Cypripedium calcicola Schltr.	Accepted		WCSP
Cypripedium californicum A.Gray	Accepted		WCSP
Cypripedium candidum Muhl. ex Willd.	Accepted		WCSP
Cypripedium × catherinae Aver.	Accepted		WCSP
Cypripedium × columbianum Sheviak	Accepted		WCSP
Cypripedium cordigerum D.Don	Accepted		WCSP
Cypripedium daweishanense (S.C.Chen & Z.J.Liu) S.C.Chen & Z.J.Liu	Accepted		WCSP
Cypripedium debile Rchb.f.	Accepted		WCSP
Cypripedium dickinsonianum Hágsater	Accepted		WCSP
Cypripedium elegans Rchb.f.	Accepted		WCSP
Cypripedium fargesii Franch.	Accepted		WCSP
Cypripedium farreri W.W.Sm.	Accepted		WCSP
Cypripedium fasciculatum Kellogg ex S.Watson	Accepted		WCSP
Cypripedium fasciolatum Franch.	Accepted		WCSP
Cypripedium flavum P.F.Hunt & Summerh.	Accepted		WCSP
Cypripedium formosanum Hayata	Accepted		WCSP
Cypripedium forrestii P.J.Cribb	Accepted		WCSP
Cypripedium franchetii Rolfe	Accepted		WCSP
Cypripedium guttatum Sw.	Accepted		WCSP
Cypripedium henryi Rolfe	Accepted		WCSP
Cypripedium × herae Ewacha & Sheviak	Accepted		WCSP
Cypripedium himalaicum Rolfe	Accepted		WCSP
Cypripedium irapeanum Lex.	Accepted		WCSP
Cypripedium japonicum Thunb.	Accepted		WCSP
Cypripedium kentuckiense C.F.Reed	Accepted		WCSP
Cypripedium lentiginosum P.J.Cribb & S.C.Chen	Accepted		WCSP
Cypripedium lichiangense S.C.Chen & P.J.Cribb	Accepted		WCSP
Cypripedium ludlowii P.J.Cribb	Accepted		WCSP
Cypripedium macranthon Sw.	Accepted		TRO
Cypripedium macranthos Sw.	Accepted		WCSP
Cypripedium malipoense S.C.Chen & Z.J.Liu	Accepted		WCSP
Cypripedium margaritaceum Franch.	Accepted		WCSP
Cypripedium micranthum Franch.	Accepted		WCSP
Cypripedium molle Lindl.	Accepted		WCSP
Cypripedium montanum Douglas ex Lindl.	Accepted		WCSP
Cypripedium morinanthum Y.N.Lee	Accepted		WCSP
Cypripedium neoparviflorum Y.N.Lee	Accepted		WCSP
Cypripedium palangshanense Tang & F.T.Wang	Accepted		WCSP
Cypripedium parviflorum Salisb.	Accepted		WCSP
Cypripedium passerinum Richardson	Accepted		WCSP
Cypripedium plectrochilum Franch.	Accepted		WCSP
Cypripedium reginae Walter	Accepted		WCSP
Cypripedium roseum Y.N.Lee	Accepted		WCSP
Cypripedium segawae Masam.	Accepted		WCSP
Cypripedium shanxiense S.C.Chen	Accepted		WCSP
Cypripedium sichuanense Perner	Accepted		WCSP
Cypripedium sinapoides Y.N.Lee	Accepted		WCSP
Cypripedium subtropicum S.C.Chen & K.Y.Lang	Accepted		WCSP
Cypripedium taibaiense G.H.Zhu & S.C.Chen	Accepted		WCSP
Cypripedium tibeticum King ex Rolfe	Accepted		WCSP
Cypripedium × ventricosum Sw.	Accepted		WCSP
Cypripedium wardii Rolfe	Accepted		WCSP
Cypripedium × wenqingiae Perner	Accepted		WCSP
Cypripedium wumengense S.C.Chen	Accepted		WCSP
Cypripedium yatabeanum Makino	Accepted		WCSP
Cypripedium yunnanense Franch.	Accepted		WCSP

Statistics

The Plant List includes 561 scientific plant names of species rank for the genus Cypripedium. Of these 63 are accepted species names.

The Plant List includes a further 131 scientific plant names of infraspecific rank for the genus Cypripedium. We do not intend The Plant List to be complete for names of infraspecific rank. These are primarily included because names of species rank are synonyms of accepted infraspecific names.

Species names

The status of the 561 species names for the genus Cypripedium recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	63	11.2%
◕	Synonym	267	47.6%
◕	Unplaced	225	40.1%
◕	Unassessed	6	1.1%

All names

The status of the 692 names (including infraspecific names) for the genus Cypripedium recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	67	9.7%
◕	Synonym	394	56.9%
◕	Unplaced	225	32.5%
◕	Unassessed	6	0.9%

Of these names,

• 6 are recorded as invalid
• 14 are recorded as illegitimate
• 1 are recorded as a spelling variant

The confidence with which the status of the 561 species names recorded in The Plant List for the genus Cypripedium, are assigned as follows:

	Confidence level	Accepted	Synonym	Unplaced	Unassessed	Total
	High confidence	62	182	0	0	244	43.5%
	Medium confidence	1	11	0	0	12	2.1%
	Low confidence	0	74	225	6	305	54.4%

The source of the species name record found in The Plant List for the genus Cypripedium, are as follows: