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Family: Orchidaceae
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Cypripedium bardolphianum Farrer & W.W. Sm.
Holotype of Cypripedium bardolphianum Farrer & W.W. Sm.
Collector/Expedition: Farrer, Reginald John & Purdom, William
Collection number: 139
Collection date: 16th June 1914
Country/Territory: China
Collecting locality: China:Siku
Description: A most curious little plant, running about with single shoots, & forming wide colonies in sunny glades & mossy woodland soil of the forest zone in the enormous gorges behind Siku, at about 800 feet, and often in company with C. luteum. It has a noxious aromatic scent, and the amfile lip is of shining waxy gold, warted and deformed with knobs and whelks & bubuckles like Bardolph.
Kind of specimen: HERBARIUM SPECIMEN/SHEET
Barcode: E00056543
Herbarium region: 4 (Inner China, Korea and Taiwan)
Number of sheets: 1
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