Anacamptis morio (L.) R.M.Bateman, A.M.Pridgeon & M.W.Chase 1997

Plant and Flowers in situ Sweden

Photos by © Egon Krogsgaard

Flower Closeup

Photo by Pascal Pernot

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Common Name The Fool Anacamptis - The Green Winged Orchid

Flower Size 3/4" [2 cm]

From Ireland, Great Britain, Norway, Sweden, Portugal, Spain, the Balearic Islands, France, Corsica, Sardinia, Sicily, Belgium, Netherlands, Germany, Denmark, Czechoslovakia, Austria, Hungary, Switzerland, Italy, Yugoslavia, Albania, Eastern Aegean Islands, Greece, Cyprus, Turkey, Bulgaria, Poland, Belarus, Ukraine, Central Russia, Lebanon, Syria, Israel, Jordan, Iraq and Iran in short, poor grasslands, meadows, alpine pastures and forest fringes at elevations up to 2000 meters as a miniature to small sized, cold growing terrestrial that has a thick, washed with violet at the tip stem and carrying 5 to 9 basal, oblong-lanceolate to oblong-ovate leaves the uppermost becoming leaf sheaths that blooms in the later spring on a pyramidal, or oblong, 2 to 4" [5 to 10 cm] long, densly many [5 to 25] flowered inflorescence with the uppermost flowers opening last and has lanceolate bracts.

Synonyms Anacamptis morio (L.) R.M.Bateman, A.M.Pridgeon & M.W.Chase 1997; Herorchis albanica (Gölz & H.R.Reinhard) D.Tyteca & E.Klein 2008; Herorchis morio (L.) D.Tyteca & E.Klein 2008; Orchis albanica Gölz & H.R.Reinhard 1984; Orchis albertii A.Camus 1926; Orchis athensis (Lej.) Dumort. 1827; Orchis crenulata Gilib. 1792; Orchis graeca Orph. ex Soó 1928; Orchis intermedia Meigen & Weniger 1819; Orchis moria Retz. 1779; Orchis morio Linne 1753; Orchis morio f. bilobulata J.Houz. ex Verm. 1949; Orchis morio f. nana Chenev. ex M.Schulze 1898; Orchis morio f. robustior Chenev. ex M.Schulze 1898; Orchis morio f. sublaxiflora Schur 1866; Orchis morio f. sublobatus Zapal. 1906; Orchis morio f. subpicta (Sabr.) Soó 1928; Orchis morio f. unilobata J.Houz. ex Verm. 1949; Orchis morio f. velutina (Schur) Pauca 1972; Orchis morio subsp. alba Arcang. 1882; Orchis morio subsp. albanica (Gölz & H.R.Reinhard) Buttler 1986; Orchis morio subsp. athensis (Lej.) K.Richt. 1890; Orchis morio subsp. caucasica (K.Koch) E.G.Camus 1908; Orchis morio subsp. longicornu (Poir.) Kreutz 2005; Orchis morio var. albiflora Tinant 1836; Orchis morio var. athensis (Lej.) Dumort. 1827; Orchis morio var. carnea Sabr. 1908; Orchis morio var. caucasica K.Koch 1849; Orchis morio var. elatior Tinant 1836; Orchis morio var. flava Sabr. 1908; Orchis morio var. gigas Podp. 1904; Orchis morio var. irregularis Verm. 1949; Orchis morio var. longicornu (Poir.) Knoche 1921; Orchis morio var. parviflora Zapal. 1906; Orchis morio var. rosea Tinant 1836; Orchis morio var. skorpili (Velen.) Soó 1927; Orchis morio var. subpicta Sabr. 1908; Orchis morio var. valida Verm.1949; Orchis morio var. velutina Schur 1866; Orchis morio var. viridiflora Tinant 1836; Orchis officinalis Salisb. 1796; Orchis picta var. albanica (Gölz & H.R.Reinhard) P.Delforge 2006; Orchis picta var. caucasica (K.Koch) P.Delforge 2006; Orchis skorpili Velen. 1886; Serapias athensis Lej 1813

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Die Orchideen Schlechter 1915; Atlas des Orchidees Cultivees Constantin 1920 drawing good; Atlas des Orchidees Cultivees Constantin 1920 drawing good; Encyclopedia of Cultivated Orchids Hawkes 1965; AOS Bulletin Vol 36 #3 1967 [Not photo #4 = #2]photo fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 38 No 9 1969; AOS Bulletin Vol 49 No 11 1980 photo fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 51 No 3 1982 photo fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 55 No 2 1986 photo fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 68 #2 1999 photo plant only Rudolf Schlechter Die Orchideen Band 1C lieferung 40 pg 2492 - 2564 Brieger 2000 as Orchis albanica; Orchids of Europe, North Africa and the Middle East Delforge 2005; AOS Bulletin Vol 77 No 6 2008 photo fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 78 #3 2009 as Anacamptis morio photo fide; Mille et Une Mini Orchideees Roguenant 2009 as Anacamptis morio photo fide; Orchid Digest Vol 75 #2 2011 Photo fide; Orchideen Series C Band 74 Thiv & Worz 2012 drawing fide; Orchid Digest Vol 81 #2 2017 as Anacamptis morio photo fide; Orchid Digest Vol 83 #2 2019 as Anacamptis morio photo fide;

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