!Neotinea maculata (Desfontaines) Stearn 1975 Photo courtesy of Pascal Pernot and His Orchids of France and Europe
Common Name The Spotted Neotina
Found in Great Britain, Western Europe through Greece and into Asia Minor as a cool to cold growing terrestrial orchid that blooms in the late winter and early spring on a long, erect, laxly several flowered inflorescence.
Synonyms Aceras densiflora Boissier 1840; Aceras intacta [Link] Rchb. fil. 1833; Aceras secundiflorum (Bertol.) Lindl. 1832; Coeloglossum densiflorum C. Hartm. ex Willk. & B. Lange 1870; Habenaria maculata [Rchb.f]Benth. ?; Himantoglossum parviflorum Spreng. 1826; Himantoglossum secundiflorum (Bertol.) Rchb. 1830; Neotinea intacta [Link] Rchb. fil 1852; Neotinea maculata f. alba Maire & Weiller 1959; Neotinea maculata var. stricta Landwehr 1977; Ophrys densiflora Desf. 1807; Orchis maculata (Desf.) Batt. & Trab. 1884; Ophrys secundiflora Steud. 1840; Orchis atlantica Willd. 1805; Orchis ecalcarata Costa & Vayr 1880; Orchis imbecilla Sol. ex Britten 1904; Orchis intacta Link 1799; Orchis sagittata Munby, Fl. Algérie: 100 (1847; Orchis secundiflora Bertol. 1806; Peristylus atlanticus (Willd.) Lindl. 1835; Peristylus densiflorus (Desf.) Lindl. 1835; Peristylus maculatus (Desf.) Rchb.f. 1850; Satyrium atlanticum (Willd.) Lindl. 1835; Satyrium densiflorum Brot. 1804; Satyrium parviflorum Pers. 1807; Tinea cylindrica Biv. 1833; Tinea intacta (Link) Boiss. 1882; Tinea maculata (Desf.) Vis. 1851
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
Encyclopedia of Cultivated Orchids Hawkes 1965 as N intacta; Die Orchideen #4 13-16 tafel 5 Rudolph Schlechter 1971 as N intacta photo ok; Die Orchideen Band 3 Sonderabdruck aus Schlechter Brieger, Maatsch and Senghas 1973 as N intacta photo ok; AOS Bulletin Vol 50 No 10 1981 photo;
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