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Cypripedium
Linnaeus ,Sp. Pl. (1753), 951.
Cypripediloideae .I, II,V,VI . Gr. kypris (Venus), pedi (l)on (sandal) ,wrongly Latinized as " pedium." Suggesting the beautiful slipper shape of the lip.
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