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|accepted_name=Calypso
|accepted_authority=Salisbury
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Parad. Lond., plate
|place=89. 1807
|year=1807
}}
|common_names=Calypso;fairy-slipper
|basionyms=
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Orchidaceae;Orchidaceae subfam. Epidendroideae;Orchidaceae tribe Calypsoeae;Calypso
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Orchidaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>subfamily</small>[[Orchidaceae subfam. Epidendroideae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>tribe</small>[[Orchidaceae tribe Calypsoeae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Calypso]]</div></div>
|etymology=Greek kalypso, a figure in Homer’s Odyssey
|volume=Volume 26
|mention_page=page 494
|treatment_page=page 622
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--><span class="statement" id="st-d0_s0" data-properties="whole_organism duration;whole_organism texture;whole_organism growth form"><b>Herbs,</b> perennial, rather succulent.</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s1" data-properties="root quantity;root size;root texture"><b>Roots </b>few, slender, fleshy.</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s2" data-properties="stem architecture"><b>Stems </b>scapose;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s3" data-properties="corm size;corm texture">corm slender to stout, fleshy;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s4" data-properties="bract architecture or shape;bract quantity">sheathing bracts usually 2, partially cloaking stem.</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s5" data-properties="leaf life cycle;leaf season;leaf architecture or arrangement or growth form;leaf orientation;leaf architecture or arrangement or shape or vernation;leaf texture"><b>Leaves </b>produced in autumn, withering spring, solitary, arising from corm, plicate, leathery.</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s6" data-properties="inflorescence position or structure subtype;inflorescence orientation;flower quantity"><b>Inflorescences </b>terminal, each with 1 flower, arising from corm;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s7" data-properties="floral bract size;floral bract prominence;stem character;sepal character">floral bract with color of stem or sepals, reduced to prominent.</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s8" data-properties="flower architecture or arrangement or growth form;flower orientation;flower orientation;flower size;flower prominence"><b>Flowers </b>solitary, resupinate, horizontal to slightly nodding, large, showy;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s9" data-properties="sepal orientation;petal orientation">sepals and petals ascending to erect;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s10" data-properties="lip shape;basal orifice quantity;margin shape;lamina pubescence;lamina shape">lip slipper-shaped, with basal orifice and 2 horns near apex, margin of lip dilated, forming bearded, apronlike lamina;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s11" data-properties="pollinarium architecture or arrangement or growth form">pollinarium solitary;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s12" data-properties="pollinarium pollinium quantity;pollinarium pollinium shape;pair quantity">pollinia 4, flattened, superposed in 2 pairs flanking axis of pollinarium;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s13" data-properties="viscidium size;viscidium shape">viscidia large, quadrangular;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s14" data-properties="stigma shape">stigma concave.</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s15" data-properties=""><b>Fruits </b>capsules.</span><!--

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|distribution=Circumboreal
|discussion=<p>Species 1.</p>
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name=Calypso
|author=Charles J. Sheviak;Paul M. Catling
|authority=Salisbury
|rank=genus
|parent rank=tribe
|synonyms=
|basionyms=
|family=Orchidaceae
|distribution=Circumboreal
|reference=None
|publication title=Parad. Lond., plate
|publication year=1807
|special status=
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|subfamily=Orchidaceae subfam. Epidendroideae
|tribe=Orchidaceae tribe Calypsoeae
|genus=Calypso
|basal orifice quantity=2
|bract architecture or shape=sheathing
|bract quantity=2
|corm size=slender;stout
|corm texture=fleshy
|floral bract prominence=prominent
|floral bract size=reduced
|flower architecture or arrangement or growth form=solitary
|flower orientation=horizontal;slightly nodding
|flower prominence=showy
|flower quantity=1
|flower size=large
|inflorescence orientation=arising
|inflorescence position or structure subtype=terminal
|lamina pubescence=bearded
|lamina shape=apronlike
|leaf architecture or arrangement or growth form=solitary
|leaf architecture or arrangement or shape or vernation=plicate
|leaf life cycle=withering
|leaf orientation=arising
|leaf season=spring
|leaf texture=leathery
|lip shape=slipper--shaped
|margin shape=dilated
|pair quantity=2
|petal orientation=ascending;erect
|pollinarium architecture or arrangement or growth form=solitary
|pollinarium pollinium quantity=4
|pollinarium pollinium shape=flattened
|root quantity=few
|root size=slender
|root texture=fleshy
|sepal character=color
|sepal orientation=ascending;erect
|stem architecture=scapose
|stem character=color
|stigma shape=concave
|viscidium shape=quadrangular
|viscidium size=large
|whole_organism duration=perennial
|whole_organism growth form=herb
|whole_organism texture=succulent
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