Dactylorhiza saccifera (Brongn.) Soó 1962 Photo courtesy of P.-M. Blais and the Orchids of France and Europe Page
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Common Name The Sack-Carrying Dactylorhiza [refers to the shape of the spur]
Flower Size 1.2" [2.8cm]
Found in Portugal, Spain, Corsica, Sicily, Italy, Yugoslavia, Albania, Greece, Bulgaria, Romania, Turkey, Lebanon and Syria in damp woods, flushed slopes, montane marshy depressions at elevations up to 2000 meters as a small to large sized, cool to cold growing terrestrial with slender, grooved at the tip stems carrying 4 to 12, erect to spreading, spotted above, obovate to elliptic leaves that blooms in the late spring to mid summer on an erect, terminal, 2.4 to 8.8" [6 to 22 cm] long, racemose, dense to near lax, 15 to 80 flowered inflorescence with bracts that are much longer than the flowers.
Synonyms Dactylorchis saccifera (Brongn.) Verm 1958; Dactylorhiza bithynica H.Baumann 1983; Dactylorhiza maculata subsp. saccifera (Brongn.) Diklic 1976; Dactylorhiza saccifera var. lanceolata Landwehr 1977; *Orchis saccifera Brongn. 1913
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Orchids of Europe, North Africa and the Middle East Delforge 2005
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