Slipper Orchid Taxonomy

• Glossary of Taxonomic Terms
• Subfamily Cypripedioideae
• Genus Paphiopedilum
• Genus Phragmipedium
• Genus Cypripedium

Subfamily Cypripedioideae

• Cox, A. V. et al. Phylogenetics of the Slipper Orchids (Cypripedioideae, Orchidaceae): Nuclear RDNA ITS Sequences. Plant Systematics and Evolution 208, no. 3/4 (1997): 197-223.
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Genus Paphiopedilum

Species Descriptions Timeline & Chart

• Braem, G., Chiron, G. Paphiopedilum. Tropicalia: France 2003.
• Taxonomy
• Descriptions
• Averyanov, L. et al. Slipper Orchids of Vietnam. Portland, OR: Timber Press, 2003.
• Koopowitz, Harold. "A Revised Checklist of the Genus Paphiopedilum". Orchid Digest. Special Reprint from Vol. 64(4): Oct/Dec, 2000, pp.155-77.
• Cribb, Phillip. The Genus Paphiopedilum, Second Edition. Natural History Publications & Kew: Borneo 1998.
• Karasawa, K., and K Saito. "A Revision of the Genus Paphiopedilum." Bulletin of the Hiroshima Botanical Garden 5 (Dec 1982): 1-69.

Genus Phragmipedium

Species Descriptions Timeline & Chart

• Gruss, Olaf. "A Checklist of the Genus Phragmipedium". Orchid Digest. Oct/Dec, 2000, pp. 213-41.

Genus Cypripedium

• Cribb, Phillip J. The Genus Cypripedium. Portland, OR: Timber Press, 1997.

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