Cypripedium elegans

Cypripedium elegans is a lady's-slipper orchid found in Nepal, Bhutan, the Indian Himalayas, Tibet, and Yunnan.^[4][2] It grows in thickets, forest margins and humus rich soil in forests.^[4]

Cypripedium elegans
Conservation status
Endangered  (IUCN 3.1)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
Clade:	Tracheophytes
Clade:	Angiosperms
Clade:	Monocots
Order:	Asparagales
Family:	Orchidaceae
Subfamily:	Cypripedioideae
Genus:	Cypripedium
Species:	C. elegans
Binomial name
Cypripedium elegans Rchb.f. (1886)[1]
Synonyms[2]
Coelogyne elegans Rchb.f.[3]