Cypripedium

Accepted species 64 Documented here 19 Family Orchidaceae

Accepted species 64 in this genus

Every accepted species in the genus is listed. A name links to its page when we hold at least three commercially licensed photographs of it. Where we do not, the row shows how many we actually found, which is usually none.

SpeciesAuthority Usable photographsPage
Cypripedium acaule Aiton 3,346 documented
Cypripedium parviflorum Salisb. 883 documented
Cypripedium calceolus L. 734 documented
Cypripedium macranthos Sw. 703 documented
Cypripedium reginae Walter 352 documented
Cypripedium guttatum Sw. 273 documented
Cypripedium montanum Douglas ex Lindl. 134 documented
Cypripedium californicum A.Gray 133 documented
Cypripedium candidum Muhl. ex Willd. 100 documented
Cypripedium arietinum R.Br. 81 documented
Cypripedium passerinum Richardson 80 documented
Cypripedium kentuckiense C.F.Reed 59 documented
Cypripedium fasciculatum Kellogg 48 documented
Cypripedium taiwanalpinum Y.I Lee, P.C.Liao & T.P.Lin 16 documented
Cypripedium elegans Rchb.f. 12 documented
Cypripedium yatabeanum Makino 7 documented
Cypripedium debile Rchb.f. 5 documented
Cypripedium fasciolatum Franch. 5 documented
Cypripedium formosanum Hayata 3 documented
Cypripedium molle Lindl. 4 below the evidence gate
Cypripedium himalaicum Rolfe 2 below the evidence gate
Cypripedium japonicum Thunb. 2 below the evidence gate
Cypripedium cordigerum D.Don 1 below the evidence gate
Cypripedium irapeanum Lex. 1 below the evidence gate
Cypripedium × alaskanum P.M.Br. 0 below the evidence gate
Cypripedium × andrewsii A.M.Fuller 0 below the evidence gate
Cypripedium × catherinae Aver. 0 below the evidence gate
Cypripedium × columbianum Sheviak 0 below the evidence gate
Cypripedium × herae Ewacha & Sheviak 0 below the evidence gate
Cypripedium × wenqingiae Perner 0 below the evidence gate
Cypripedium bardolphianum W.W.Sm. & Farrer 0 below the evidence gate
Cypripedium calcicola Schltr. 0 below the evidence gate
Cypripedium conzattianum R.González & Lizb.Hern. 0 below the evidence gate
Cypripedium dickinsonianum Hágsater 0 below the evidence gate
Cypripedium fargesii Franch. 0 below the evidence gate
Cypripedium farreri W.W.Sm. 0 below the evidence gate
Cypripedium favillianum J.T.Curt. 0 below the evidence gate
Cypripedium flavum P.F.Hunt & Summerh. 0 below the evidence gate
Cypripedium forrestii P.J.Cribb 0 below the evidence gate
Cypripedium franchetii Rolfe 0 below the evidence gate
Cypripedium fred-mulleri Szlach., Kolan. & Górniak 0 below the evidence gate
Cypripedium gomezianum R.González & Lizb.Hern. 0 below the evidence gate
Cypripedium henryi Rolfe 0 below the evidence gate
Cypripedium lentiginosum P.J.Cribb & S.C.Chen 0 below the evidence gate
Cypripedium lichiangense S.C.Chen & P.J.Cribb 0 below the evidence gate
Cypripedium ludlowii P.J.Cribb 0 below the evidence gate
Cypripedium luzmarianum R.González & R.Ramírez 0 below the evidence gate
Cypripedium margaritaceum Franch. 0 below the evidence gate
Cypripedium micranthum Franch. 0 below the evidence gate
Cypripedium palangshanense Tang & F.T.Wang 0 below the evidence gate
Cypripedium plectrochilum Franch. 0 below the evidence gate
Cypripedium segawae Masam. 0 below the evidence gate
Cypripedium shanxiense S.C.Chen 0 below the evidence gate
Cypripedium sichuanense Perner 0 below the evidence gate
Cypripedium subtropicum S.C.Chen & K.Y.Lang 0 below the evidence gate
Cypripedium susanae R.González & Lizb.Hern. 0 below the evidence gate
Cypripedium taibaiense G.H.Zhu & S.C.Chen 0 below the evidence gate
Cypripedium tibeticum King ex Rolfe 0 below the evidence gate
Cypripedium ventricosum Sw. 0 below the evidence gate
Cypripedium wardii (Summerh.) C.H.Curtis 0 below the evidence gate
Cypripedium wardii Rolfe 0 below the evidence gate
Cypripedium wumengense S.C.Chen 0 below the evidence gate
Cypripedium yinshanicum Ma & Y.Z.Zhao 0 below the evidence gate
Cypripedium yunnanense Franch. 0 below the evidence gate

Why some species have no pagethe gate

This site is commercial, so it can only publish photographs licensed for commercial use. Roughly three quarters of the photographs on iNaturalist are CC BY-NC, which excludes them. A species needs at least three usable photographs before we will build it a page, because a page with one picture and no traits tells you nothing you could not get from a search result, and generating hundreds of thousands of those is precisely the practice that got the previous version of this site deleted.

So the species above without a link are not errors and they are not omissions. They are real, accepted plants that we cannot yet document to the standard we hold ourselves to, and the count in the photographs column is exactly how far short we fall.

Sourcesevery claim on this page

  1. World Flora Online Plant List. Accepted names, authorities, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
  2. iNaturalist. Photograph counts, restricted to CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA. Retrieved 2026-06-27.