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TA 4721-PRC: Preparing the Shaanxi-Qinling Mountains Integrated Ecosystem Management Project<br />

<strong>Final</strong> <strong>Report</strong> Appendix 5<br />

BROWN MOCCASIN FLOWER -- CYPRIPEDIUM CALCICOLUM (SMITHII)<br />

Global Range: China endemic<br />

China Range: Qinling Mountains but not the project area<br />

Habitat and ecology: an orchid; flowering in June; growing at 2,400-3,300 m asl in Sichuan<br />

Biomes: terrestrial<br />

Habitats: forest – tropical to temperate<br />

shrubland – temperate<br />

grassland – upland, mountainous<br />

Conservation Status:<br />

Global status: Critically Endangered 64<br />

CITES: II<br />

China Red Data Book:<br />

National protection:<br />

Shaanxi protection:<br />

Threats & constraints:<br />

Research, survey and management recommendations<br />

Conservation: Prepare and implement a Conservation Plan for<br />

Research & monitoring: Assess the status of Cypripedium calcicolum in the Qinling and the<br />

Project Area;<br />

Protection: Encourage actions to ensure that the species receives the fullest<br />

possible national and Shaanxi Province legislative protection.<br />

Capacity building: Develop capacity to identify the species in the field and use GPS to<br />

record locations<br />

64 adapted from IUCN World Conservation Union Species Survival Commission Red List of Threatened Species

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