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
LATER
and EARLY
Common Name The Black Gymnadenia
Flower Size 3/4" [2.2 cm]
Found in Norway, Sweden, Germany, Austria, Switzerland, France, Spain, Italy, Bulgaria, Romania, Albania and Yugoslavia as a 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 with the upper 2 to 3, cauline, bract-like sometimes edged red leaves that blooms in the later spring and early summer on a robust, erect inflorescence holding the flowers in an 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. 1851; Orchis nigra (L.) Scop. 1772; Orchis variegata Schrank 1789; *Satyrium nigrum L.1753; Sieberia nigra (L.) Spreng. 1817
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Die Orchideen Schlechter 1915 as Nigritella nigra; Die Orchideen Schlechter 1915 as Nigritella nigra var rubra; Atlas des Orchidees Cultivees Constantin 1920 as Nigritella angustifolia drawing ok; Encyclopedia of Cultivated Orchids Hawkes 1965 as Nigritella nigra; Die Orchideen 3 Auflage Bd 1 Sonderabdruck aus Schlechter Lieferung 4 193 to 256 Brieger, Maatsch and Senghas 1973 as Nigritella nigra photo fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 52 No 5 1983 as Nigritella nigra photo fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 54 #7 1985 as Nigritella nigra photo fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 54 #7 1985 as Nigritella nigra var fulva photo fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 54 #7 1985 as Nigritella nigra var corneliana photo fide; Orchids of Europe, North Africa and the Middle East Delforge 2005
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