Dactylorhiza aristata (Fisch. ex Lindl.) Soó 1962
Plant and Flowers in situ Hachimantai highland Japan
Plant and Flowers in situ Photos by Takato NATSU from Japan and his Japan Orchids Page
D aristata var kodiakensis Photo by Carl Luer
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Common Name The Spiked Dactylorhiza - In China Mang Jian Zhang Lie Lan
Flower Size .5" [1.25 cm]
Found in Japan, Korea, China, eastern Siberia, Aluetians and Alaska in grasslands as a small to medium sized, cold growing terrestrial with palmate tuberoids giving rise to 2 to 5, green, unspottteed, elliptic-lanceolate, basally clasping the hollow stem leaves that blooms in the later spring to early summer on a terminal, erect, to 18" [40 cm] long, densely to 30 flowered inflorescence with floiaceous, lanceolate, purple suffused, upper ones shorter, shorter than the ovary floral bracts and carrying purple, pink, salmon or white flowers
Synonyms Dactylorhiza aristata f. alba P.M.Br. 1995; Dactylorhiza aristata f. perbracteata (Lepage) Catling 1982; Dactylorhiza aristata f. rosea P.M.Br. 1995; Dactylorhiza aristata var. kodiakensis Luer & G.M.Luer 1972; *Orchis aristata Fisch. ex Lindl. 1835; Orchis aristata f. perbracteata Lepage 1952; Orchis aristata var. immaculata Makino 1932; Orchis aristata var. maculata Makino 1932; Orchis aristata var. perbracteata Lepage 1952; Orchis beeringiana (Cham.) Kudô 1922; Orchis latifolia var. beeringiana Cham.1828
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Die Orchideen Schlechter 1915 as Orchis aristata; Die Orchideen 3 Auflage Bd 1 Sonderabdruck aus Schlechter Lieferung 4 193 to 256 Brieger, Maatsch and Senghas 1973; The Native Orchids of the United States and Canada Luer 1975 drawing/photos fide; The Native Orchids of the United States and Canada Luer 1975 as D aristata var kodiakensis drawing/photos fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 67 No 6 1998 photo fide; Orchid Digest Vol 73 #1 Pupulin & Dressler 2009 photo fide; Flora of China Vol 25 Zhengyi, Raven & Deyuan 2009; AOS Bulletin Vol 80 #4 2011 photo fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 84 #12 2015 photo fide;
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