Gymnadenia nigra (L.) Rchb.f 1856 Photo by © Pieter C. Brouwer and his Nature Photo Website
Plant and Flowers in situ Photo courtesy of © Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Herbarium Jany Renz and their Website
LATE
and EARLY
Common Name The Black Gymnadenia
Flower Size 3/4" [2.2 cm]
Found in Norway and Sweden, as miniature to small sized, cold growing terrestrial orchid with 7 to 11 basal, spreading to erect, dark green above, pale green below, linear, acute, finely serrated margin leaves and the upper 2 to 3, cauline, bract-like sometimes edged red leaves that blooms in the late spring and early summer on a robust, erect inflorescence that has the flowers in a apical, hemispherical cluster with the strongly vanilla or spicy scented flowers opening in succession.
Synonyms Habenaria nigra (L.) R.Br.1813; Nigritella angustifolia Rich. 1817; Nigritella nigra (L.) Rchb.f. 1908; Orchis nigra (L.) Scop. 1772; *Satyrium nigrum L.1753; Sieberia nigra (L.) Spreng. 1817
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Encyclopedia of Cultivated Orchids Hawkes 1965 as Nigritella nigra; Die Orchideen #4 13-16 tafel 5 Rudolph Schlechter 1971 as Nigritella nigra photo fide; Die Orchideen Band 3 Sonderabdruck aus Schlechter Brieger, Maatsch and Senghas 1973 as Nigritella nigra photo ok; AOS Bulletin Vol 52 No 5 1983 photo as Nigritella nigra; Orchids of Europe, North Africa and the Middle East Delforge 2005
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