Cephalanthera kurdica Bornm. ex Kraenzl. 1895

Plant and Flowers in situ Photos © by Ori Fragman Sapir and The Trek Nature Website

Part sunCold Spring

Common Name The Kurdish Cephalanthera

Flower Size 1" [2.5 cm]

Found in the Transcaucsus, Turkey, Iraq and Iran in open areas of broad-leaved forests, pinewoods, scrub and woodland edges at elevations up to 2000 meters as a small to large sized, cold growing terrestrial with robust, grooved towards the tip stems carrying 2 to 4, short, elliptic to ovate-lanceolate, keeled, rather leathery, acute, near basally clasping leaves that blooms in the spring on a terminal, erect, 3.2 to 16" [8 to 40 cm] long, 2 to 50 flowered inflorescence.

Synonyms Cephalanthera andrusi Post 1895; Cephalanthera cucullata subsp. floribunda (Woronow) H.Sund. 1975; Cephalanthera cucullata subsp. kurdica (Bornm. ex Kraenzl.) H.Sund. 1975; Cephalanthera cucullata var. kurdica (Bornm. ex Kraenzl.) Bornm. 1910; Cephalanthera floribunda Woronow 1908; Cephalanthera kurdica subsp. floribunda (Woronow) Soó 1969; Serapias kurdica (Bornm. ex Kraenzl.) A.A.Eaton 1908

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; AOS Bulletin Vol 54 #6 1985 photo fide; Orchids of Europe, North Africa and the Middle east Delforge 2005 Photo Fide

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