Dactylorhiza insularis (Sommier) Landwehr 1969 Photo courtesy of T.H. Pain and the Orchids of France and Europe

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D sambucina Group

Common Name The Island Dactylorhiza

Flower Size .8" [2 cm]

This small to medium sized, cool to cold growing terrestrial is found in Portugal, Spain, France, Corsica, Sardinia, Italy and Morocco in full sun to mid-shade of open woodlands, meadows and short grasslands at elevations up to 2000 meters with a slender stem carrying 5 to 9, near erect, linear-lanceolate leaves and it blooms on an erect, terminal, laxly many flowered, racemose inflorescence that has leaflike bracts and blooms in the spring with fragrant [elder] flowers.

Synonyms Dactylorhiza bartonii (Huxley & P.F. Hunt) Aver. 1984; Dactylorhiza fasciculata (Tineo) Averyanov 1984; Dactylorhiza insularis f. castellana (Rivas Goday) Bernardos 2002; Dactylorhiza insularis var. bartonii (Huxley & P.F. Hunt) Landwehr ?; Dactylorhiza insularis f. bartonii (Huxley & P.F. Hunt) Gathoye & Tyteca ?; Dactylorhiza romana subsp. bartonii Huxley & P.F. Hunt ?; Dactylorhiza sambucina subsp. insularis (Sommier) Soó ?; *Orchis insularis Sommier 1896; Orchis pseudosambucina subsp. castellana Rivas Goday 1945; Orchis sambucina f. hybrida W.Zimm. in ?; Orchis sambucina f. robusta Neuman 1901;

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Orchids of Europe, North Africa and the Middle East Delforge 2005

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