''Cypripedium japonicum'', known as the Japanese cypripedium and Korean lady's slipper, is a species of orchid. It is native to

Japan Japan ( ja, 日本, or , and formally , ''Nihonkoku'') is an island country in East Asia. It is situated in the northwest Pacific Ocean, and is bordered on the west by the Sea of Japan, while extending from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north ...

, Korea and

China China, officially the People's Republic of China (PRC), is a country in East Asia. It is the world's most populous country, with a population exceeding 1.4 billion, slightly ahead of India. China spans the equivalent of five time zones and ...

( Anhui,

Gansu Gansu (, ; alternately romanized as Kansu) is a province in Northwest China. Its capital and largest city is Lanzhou, in the southeast part of the province. The seventh-largest administrative district by area at , Gansu lies between the Tibet ...

, Guizhou, Hubei, Hunan, Jiangxi, Shaanxi, Sichuan, Zhejiang).Flora of China, v 25 p 29, 扇脉杓兰 shan mai shao lan, ''Cypripedium japonicum''
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Cypripedium japonicum

japonicum This list of Latin and Greek words commonly used in systematic names is intended to help those unfamiliar with classical languages to understand and remember the scientific names of organisms. The binomial nomenclature used for animals and plants i ...

Orchids of Japan Orchids of China Orchids of Korea Plants described in 1784 {{Cypripedioideae-stub