Plant Details

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

Non-scientific name:	Class of name:	Medicinal source:
kurzstängeliger frauenschuh	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999)
mocassin-flower	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999)
moccasin flower	Other	U.S. FDA Substance Registration System (2016)
pink lady's slipper	Other	Herbs of Commerce (McGuffin et al., 2000) Native American Ethnobot.(Moerman, 1998) U.S. FDA Substance Registration System (2016)
pink lady's-slipper	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999)
pink lady's-slipper orchid	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999)
pink lady’s slipper	Other	Commonly Traded CITES-Listed Spp. in Primer (AHPA, 2013)
praktguckusko	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999)
stemless lady's-slipper	Other	U.S. FDA Substance Registration System (2016)

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

Kew's taxonomic resources include 12 scientific synonym(s) for this plant:

Calceolus hirsutus (Mill.) Nieuwl. Amer. Midl. Naturalist 3: 118 (1913).
Cypripedium acaule f. albiflora E.L.Rand & Redfield Fl. Mt. Desert Isl.: 154 (1894).
Cypripedium acaule f. biflorum P.M.Br. N. Amer. Native Orchid J. 1: 197 (1995).
Cypripedium acaule f. lancifolia House Bull. New York State Mus. Nat. Hist. 254: 236 (1924).
Cypripedium catesbianum Raf. Herb. Raf. 2: 44 (1833).
Cypripedium hirsutum Mill. Gard. Dict., ed. 8.: n.° 3 (1768), nom. rej.
Cypripedium humile Salisb. Trans. Linn. Soc. London 1: 79 (1791).
Cypripedium vittatum var. planum Raf. Herb. Raf. 2: 44 (1833).
Fissipes acaulis (Aiton) Small Fl. S.E. U.S.: 311 (1903).
Fissipes acaulis f. lancifolia House Bull. New York State Mus. Nat. Hist. 219-220: 242 (1920).
Fissipes hirsuta (Mill.) Farw. Druggists' Circ. 61: 230 (1917).
Fissipes hirsuta f. albiflora (E.L.Rand & Redfield) Farw. Pap. Michigan Acad. Sci. 23: 128 (1938).

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

Name as published:	Medicinal source:
Cypripedium acaule	Commonly Traded CITES-Listed Spp. in Primer (AHPA, 2013)
Cypripedium acaule Ait.	Native American Ethnobot.(Moerman, 1998)
Cypripedium acaule Aiton	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999) Herbs of Commerce (McGuffin et al., 2000) U.S. FDA Substance Registration System (2016) World Checklist of Useful Pl. Spp. (Diazgranados et al., 2020) World Dictionary of Med. & Pois. Pl. (Quattrocchi, 2012)

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