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{{Treatment/ID
|accepted_name=Cypripedium acaule
|accepted_authority=Aiton
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Hort. Kew.
|place=3: 303. 1789
|year=1789
}}
|common_names=Small pink lady’s-slipper;pink moccasin-flower;stemless lady’s-slipper;cypripède acaule
|basionyms=
|synonyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Fissipes acaulis
|authority=(Aiton) Small
}}
|hierarchy=Orchidaceae;Orchidaceae subfam. Cypripedioideae;Cypripedium;Cypripedium acaule
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Orchidaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>subfamily</small>[[Orchidaceae subfam. Cypripedioideae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Cypripedium]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Cypripedium acaule]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 26
|mention_page=page 499
|treatment_page=page 502
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Plants </b>erect, 15–61 cm; stems leafless scapes. <b>Leaves</b> 2, radical, arising directly from rhizome, ascending to spreading; blade broadly elliptic to oblong-, ovate-, or obovate-elliptic, 9–30 × 2.5–15 cm. <b>Flowers</b> solitary; sepals reddish brown to green; dorsal sepal lanceolate to lance-ovate or elliptic, 19–52 × 5–22 mm; lateral sepals connate, synsepal 17–49 × 6–25 mm; petals deflexed to somewhat spreading, somewhat spirally twisted, same color as sepals, linear- to ovate-lanceolate, 24–60 × 4–17 mm; lip magenta to white, obovoid to oblance-ovoid, 30–67 mm, orifice a longitudinal fissure, length of lip; staminode quadrangular to suborbicular-rhomboid or ovoid-deltoid. <b>2n</b> = 20.</span><!--

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|phenology=Flowering Apr–Jul.
|habitat=Dry to wet forests, bogs, brushy barrens, heath, and roadsides on highly acidic soil
|elevation=mostly 0–1200 m
|distribution=Alta.;Man.;N.B.;Nfld. and Labr. (Nfld.);N.W.T.;N.S.;Ont.;P.E.I.;Que.;Sask.;Ala.;Conn.;Del.;D.C.;Ga.;Ill.;Ind.;Ky.;Maine;Md.;Mass.;Mich.;Minn.;N.H.;N.J.;N.Y.;N.C.;Ohio;Pa.;R.I.;S.C.;Tenn.;Vt.;Va.;W.Va.;Wis.
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name=Cypripedium acaule
|author=
|authority=Aiton
|rank=species
|parent rank=genus
|synonyms=Fissipes acaulis
|basionyms=
|family=Orchidaceae
|phenology=Flowering Apr–Jul.
|habitat=Dry to wet forests, bogs, brushy barrens, heath, and roadsides on highly acidic soil
|elevation=mostly 0–1200 m
|distribution=Alta.;Man.;N.B.;Nfld. and Labr. (Nfld.);N.W.T.;N.S.;Ont.;P.E.I.;Que.;Sask.;Ala.;Conn.;Del.;D.C.;Ga.;Ill.;Ind.;Ky.;Maine;Md.;Mass.;Mich.;Minn.;N.H.;N.J.;N.Y.;N.C.;Ohio;Pa.;R.I.;S.C.;Tenn.;Vt.;Va.;W.Va.;Wis.
|reference=None
|publication title=Hort. Kew.
|publication year=1789
|special status=
|source xml=https://jpend@bitbucket.org/aafc-mbb/fna-data-curation.git/src/9216fc802291cd3df363fd52122300479582ede7/coarse_grained_fna_xml/V26/V26_1023.xml
|subfamily=Orchidaceae subfam. Cypripedioideae
|genus=Cypripedium
|species=Cypripedium acaule
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