Plant Details

Accepted name:: Cypripedium parviflorum Salisb. [Orchidaceae]
Source:: World Checklist ( High Taxonomic Confidence )
More about this plant:: Plants of the World Online
Infraspecies:: 4

Cypripedium parviflorum var. exiliens Sheviak

Cypripedium parviflorum var. makasin (Farw.) Sheviak

Cypripedium parviflorum var. parviflorum

Cypripedium parviflorum var. pubescens (Willd.) O.W.Knight

Non-scientific name:	Class of name:	Medicinal source:
lesser yellow lady's slipper	Other	Native American Ethnobot.(Moerman, 1998)
small yellow lady's slipper	Other	Herbs of Commerce (McGuffin et al., 2000)
yellow lady’s slipper	Other	Commonly Traded CITES-Listed Spp. in Primer (AHPA, 2013)

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

Kew's taxonomic resources include 7 scientific synonym(s) for this plant:

Calceolus parviflorus (Salisb.) Nieuwl. Amer. Midl. Naturalist 3: 118 (1913).
Criosanthes parviflora (Salisb.) Raf. Fl. Tellur. 4: 46 (1838).
Cypripedium bulbosum var. parviflorum (Salisb.) Farw. Rep. (Annual) Michigan Acad. Sci. 15: 170 (1913).
Cypripedium calceolus var. parviflorum (Salisb.) Fernald Rhodora 48: 4 (1946).
Cypripedium calceolus subsp. parviflorum (Salisb.) Hultén Ark. Bot., a.s., 7(1): 34 (1967 publ. 1968).
Cypripedium hirsutum var. parviflorum (Salisb.) Rolfe Orchid Rev. 15: 184 (1907).
Cypripedium luteum var. parviflorum (Salisb.) Raf. Med. Fl. 1: 142 (1828).

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

Name as published:	Medicinal source:
Cypripedium parviflorum	Commonly Traded CITES-Listed Spp. in Primer (AHPA, 2013) Europe's Med. Pl. (Lange, 1998) SOTWP 2016: Kew Economic Botany Collection (RBG, Kew, 2015)
Cypripedium parviflorum Salisb.	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999) Herbs of Commerce (McGuffin et al., 2000) Native American Ethnobot.(Moerman, 1998) World Checklist of Useful Pl. Spp. (Diazgranados et al., 2020) World Dictionary of Med. & Pois. Pl. (Quattrocchi, 2012)
Cypripedium parviflorum Salisbury	Pl. Med. Totius Mundi (Penso & Proserpio, 1997)

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