Cypripedium elegans is a lady's-slipper orchid found in Nepal, Bhutan, the Indian Himalayas, Tibet, and Yunnan.[4][2] It grows in thickets, forest margins and humus rich soil in forests.[4]
| Cypripedium elegans | |
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Conservation status | |
Endangered (IUCN 3.1) | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Monocots |
| Order: | Asparagales |
| Family: | Orchidaceae |
| Subfamily: | Cypripedioideae |
| Genus: | Cypripedium |
| Species: | C. elegans |
| Binomial name | |
| Cypripedium elegans | |
| Synonyms[2] | |
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Coelogyne elegans Rchb.f.[3] | |
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