Cypripedium veganum Cockerell and Barker in Proc. 
Biol. Soc. Wash. 14 (1901) 178. 
Cypripedium parviflorum var. pubescens (Willd.) 
Knight in Rhodora 8 (1906) 98. 
Cypripedium hirsutum var. parviflorum Rolfe in Or¬ 
chid Review 15 (1907) 184. 
Calceolus parviflorus Nieuwland in Am. Midi. Nat. 
8 (1913) 118. 
Calceolus hirsutus Nieuwland in Am. Midi. Nat. 8 
(1913) 118. 
Cypripedium bulbosum var. jlavescens Farwell in Fif¬ 
teenth Rept. Mich. Acad. Sci. (1913) 170. 
Cypripedium bulbosum var. parviflorum Farwell in 
Fifteenth Rept. Mich. Acad. Sci. (1913) 170. 
Cypripedium pubescens var. Makasin Farwell in 
Twentieth Rept. Mich. Acad. Sci. (1918) 198. 
Cypripedium Makasin Farwell in Twentieth Rept. 
Mich. Acad. Sci. (1918) 198, in textu. 
Cypripedium parviflorum var. planipetalum Fernald 
in Rhodora 28 (1926) 168. 
Cypripedium planipetalum Morris & Eames Our Wild 
Orchids (1929) 8, 11. 
Roots coarsely fibrous. Plant 1-7 dm. tall, erect, more 
or less glandular-pubescent throughout (particularly so 
at the nodes and on the capsules). Leaves many-nerved 
and plicate, sheathing at the base, oval, ovate or ovate- 
lanceolate, acuminate, 5-20 cm. long, 4-10 cm. broad 
at the middle. Flowers one or two, on long slender pe¬ 
duncles, each subtended by a leaf-like floral bract. Floral 
bracts ovate-lanceolate, acuminate, 1-10 cm. long, 1-* 
cm. broad at the middle. Sepals and petals greenish- 
yellow to crimson-purple. Dorsal sepal 3-8 cm. long, 
1-3.5 cm. broad, ovate to ovate-lanceolate, acuminate- 
attenuated, often simply undulate. Lateral sepals united 
almost to the apex, bidentate, 2.5-8 cm. long; lamina 
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