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Lady’s slipper large-flowered

(Cypripedium macranthon Sw.)

Perennial herb 25–50 cm tall, with a strong short root and straight stem with
glandular pubescence. Leaves, 3-5, alternate, wide-elliptic leaf blades, whole, entire,
10–18 cm long and 5–10 cm wide. The flower is zygomorphic, usually single, large,
dark pink or purple. There are 6 perianth segments, the lower two of them are fused,
but bifurcated at the end, the upper one noticeably hangs over a strongly swollen,
shoe-shaped lip, the length of which is 5–7 cm.
In the Sakhalin Region, it grows in the middle and southern parts of Sakhalin
Island (in all administrative regions, except for Okhinsky and Nogliksky), on Moneron
Island, as well as on the Kuril Islands: Shumshu, Makanrushi, Ketoy, Simushir, Brother
Chirpoev, Urup, Iturup, Kunashir, Shikotan. In Russia it also grows in the south, south-
west and south-east of the European part, in the south of the Urals, in Siberia and in the
Far East. Outside the Russian Federation — in Mongolia, China, Japan and the Korean
Peninsula.

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