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Elegant cypripedium

Cypripedium elegans Rchb.f.

Family
Orchidaceae
Genus
Cypripedium

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Elegant cypripedium: Cypripedium elegans Rchb.f. (1886) photographed in North Sikkim, India at ~3000m.
Photo: Siddarth Jude Machado, CC BY 4.0, from Wikimedia Commons

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Common names

By language (4)
Arabic
خف السيدة الأنيق
Chinese
雅致杓兰, 雅致杓蘭
English
Elegant cypripedium, Elegant slipper orchid
German
Zierlicher Frauenschuh

Synonyms

  • Coelogyne elegans Rchb.f.

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Sources: classification, synonyms from World Flora Online Plant List (2026-06, CC0 1.0); common names, popularity from Wikidata (2026-10-26, CC0 1.0). About our plant data.