Calypso

Salisbury

Parad. Lond., plate 89. 1807.

Common names: Calypso fairy-slipper
Etymology: Greek kalypso, a figure in Homer’s Odyssey
Treatment appears in FNA Volume 26. Treatment on page 622. Mentioned on page 494.
 TaxonIllustrator 
FNA26 Plate 103.jpegCalypso bulbosa var. americana
Tipularia discolor
Liparis liliifolia
Barbara Alongi
Barbara Alongi
Barbara Alongi

Herbs, perennial, rather succulent. Roots few, slender, fleshy. Stems scapose; corm slender to stout, fleshy; sheathing bracts usually 2, partially cloaking stem. Leaves produced in autumn, withering spring, solitary, arising from corm, plicate, leathery. Inflorescences terminal, each with 1 flower, arising from corm; floral bract with color of stem or sepals, reduced to prominent. Flowers solitary, resupinate, horizontal to slightly nodding, large, showy; sepals and petals ascending to erect; lip slipper-shaped, with basal orifice and 2 horns near apex, margin of lip dilated, forming bearded, apronlike lamina; pollinarium solitary; pollinia 4, flattened, superposed in 2 pairs flanking axis of pollinarium; viscidia large, quadrangular; stigma concave. Fruits capsules.

Distribution

Circumboreal

Discussion

Species 1.

Selected References

None.

Lower Taxa

... more about "Calypso"
self-pollination +
Charles J. Sheviak +  and Paul M. Catling +
Salisbury +
indehiscent +
not +  and articulate +
conduplicate +  and plicate +
flattened +, triangular +  and cylindric +
Calypso +  and fairy-slipper +
Circumboreal +
Greek kalypso, a figure in Homer’s Odyssey +
3-merous +, sessile +  and pedicellate +
horizontal +  and slightly nodding +
lateral +  and terminal +
apronlike +
petiolate +, sessile +  and simple +
duplicate +, convolute +, whorled +, opposite +, distichous +  and alternate +
cauline +  and basal +
reduced +
leathery +
slipper--shaped +
larger +
differing in form and color +
1-many-flowered +  and cymose +
pendent +  and erect +
ascending +  and erect +
Parad. Lond., plate +
aerial +  and subterranean +
slender +
minute +
free +, distinct +, adnate +  and connate +
ascending +  and erect +
foliaceous +
not +  and alike +
pendent +  and erect +
proliferous +
thickened +  and stout +
Calypso +
Orchidaceae tribe Calypsoeae +
quadrangular +
aquatic +, lithophytic +, terrestrial +  and epiphytic +
saprophytic +, photosynthetic +  and mycotrophic +