Dactylorhiza praetermissa (Druce) Soó 1962
Dark Solid version Photo by © Pieter C. Brouwer and his Photo Website
Inflorescence in situ Photo courtesy of F. Dusak and the Orchids of France and Europe Page
D praetermissa Group
Common Name The Southern Marsh Orchid - The Neglected Dactylorhiza
Flower Size 2/3" [2.2 cm]
Commonly called the southern marsh orchid, it hails from Great Britain, Norway, France, Belgium, Netherlands, Germany and Denmark in marshes, dune slacks and damp meadows as a small to giant sized, cool to cold growing terrestrial with a hollow stem carrying 5 to 9, cauline, unspotted lanceolate, green leaves that blooms in the late spring and early summer on a terminal, erect, 2 to 6" [5 to 15 cm] long, densely many flowered, cylindrical, racemose inflorescence that has leaflike bracts.
Synonyms Dactylorchis praetermissa (Druce) Verm. 1947; Dactylorhiza incarnata subsp. praetermissa (Druce) Sundermann 1980; Dactylorhiza integrata (E.G.Camus ex Fourcy) Aver. 1984; Dactylorhiza majalis subsp. praetermissa (Druce) D. Moresby, Moore & Soó 1978; Dactylorhiza majalis var. junialis (Verm.) Senghas 1968; Dactylorhiza majalis var. macrantha (Sipkes) R.M.Bateman & Denholm 1983; Dactylorhiza majalis var. praetermissa (Druce) R.M.Bateman & Denholm 1983; Dactylorhiza pardalina (Pugsley) Aver. 1986; Dactylorhiza praetermissa f. junialis (Verm.) P.D.Sell 1996; Dactylorhiza praetermissa subsp. integrata (E.G.Camus ex Fourcy) Soó 1962; Dactylorhiza praetermissa var. integrata (E.G.Camus ex Fourcy) D.Tyteca & Gathoye 1993; Dactylorhiza praetermissa var. junialis (Verm.) Senghas 1968; Dactylorhiza praetermissa var. maculosa D.Tyteca & Gathoye 1990; Orchis incarnata var. integrata E.G.Camus ex Fourcy 1891; Orchis latifolia var. junialis Verm. 1933; Orchis pardalina Pugsley 1934 ; *Orchis praetermissa Druce 1914; Orchis praetermissa var. macrantha Sipkes 1921;
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; AOS Bulletin Vol 52 No 5 1983 photo; Orchids of Europe, North Africa and the Middle East Delforge 2005;
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