Dactylorhiza praetermissa (Druce) Soó 1962
Dark Solid version Photo by © Pieter C. Brouwer and his Photo Website
Inflorescence in situ Photo courtesy of F. Dusak and the Orchids of France and Europe Page
D praetermissa Group
Common Name The Southern Marsh Orchid - The Neglected Dactylorhiza
Flower Size 2/3" [2.2 cm]
Commonly called the southern marsh orchid, it hails from Great Britain, Norway, France, Belgium, Netherlands, Germany and Denmark in marshes, dune slacks and damp meadows as a small to giant sized, cool to cold growing terrestrial with a hollow stem carrying 5 to 9, cauline, unspotted lanceolate, green leaves that blooms in the late spring and early summer on a terminal, erect, 2 to 6" [5 to 15 cm] long, densely many flowered, cylindrical, racemose inflorescence that has leaflike bracts.
Synonyms Dactylorchis praetermissa (Druce) Verm. 1947; Dactylorchis praetermissa var. cuspidata Deinum ex Verm. 1949; Dactylorchis praetermissa var. elata Verm. 1949; Dactylorchis praetermissa var. junialis (Verm.) Verm. 1949; Dactylorchis praetermissa var. longifolia Verm. 1949; Dactylorchis praetermissa var. macrantha (Sipkes) Verm. 1949; Dactylorchis praetermissa var. parvifructa Verm. 1949; Dactylorchis praetermissa var. tenera Verm. 1949; Dactylorchis praetermissa var. triangularis Verm. 1949; Dactylorhiza elatior (Afzel. ex Rchb.f.) Soó 1962; Dactylorhiza incarnata subsp. praetermissa (Druce) Sundermann 1980; Dactylorhiza integrata (E.G.Camus ex Fourcy) Aver. 1984; Dactylorhiza majalis subsp. elatior (Fr.) M.Hedrén & H.A.Pedersen 2012; Dactylorhiza majalis subsp. integrata (E.G.Camus) H.A.Pedersen 2009; Dactylorhiza majalis subsp. praetermissa (Druce) D. Moresby, Moore & Soó 1978; Dactylorhiza majalis var. integrata (E.G.Camus) H.A.Pedersen 2011; Dactylorhiza majalis var. junialis (Verm.) Senghas 1968; Dactylorhiza majalis var. macrantha (Sipkes) R.M.Bateman & Denholm 1983; Dactylorhiza majalis var. praetermissa (Druce) R.M.Bateman & Denholm 1983; Dactylorhiza osiliensis Pikner 2005; Dactylorhiza pardalina (Pugsley) Aver. 1986; Dactylorhiza praetermissa f. junialis (Verm.) P.D.Sell 1996; Dactylorhiza praetermissa subsp. integrata (E.G.Camus ex Fourcy) Soó 1962; Dactylorhiza praetermissa subsp. junialis (Verm.) Soó 1962; Dactylorhiza praetermissa subsp. osiliensis (Pikner) Kreutz 2006; Dactylorhiza praetermissa subsp. schoenophila R.M.Bateman & Denholm 2012; Dactylorhiza praetermissa var. cuspidata (Deinum ex Verm.) Soo 1962; Dactylorhiza praetermissa var. integrata (E.G.Camus ex Fourcy) D.Tyteca & Gathoye 1993; Dactylorhiza praetermissa var. junialis (Verm.) Senghas 1968; Dactylorhiza praetermissa var. maculosa D.Tyteca & Gathoye 1990; Orchis angustifolia var. elata Hartm. 1843; Orchis elatior [Fr] Afzel. ex Rchb.f. 1851; Orchis incarnata var. albiflora Lecoq & Lamotte ex Thielens 1873; Orchis incarnata subsp. integrata E.G.Camus ex Fourcy 1891; Orchis incarnata var. integrata E.G.Camus ex Fourcy 1891; Orchis latifolia subsp. elatior Fr. 1846; Orchis latifolia var. junialis Verm. 1933; Orchis pardalina Pugsley 1934 ; *Orchis praetermissa Druce 1914; Orchis praetermissa f. macrantha (Sipkes) Soó 1938; Orchis praetermissa var. albiflora Druce 1919; Orchis praetermissa var. macrantha Sipkes 1921;
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Die Orchideen 3 Auflage Bd 1 Sonderabdruck aus Schlechter Lieferung 4 193 to 256 Brieger, Maatsch and Senghas 1973; AOS Bulletin Vol 52 No 5 1983 photo fide; Orchids Travel By Air A Pictoral Safari Mulder, Mulder-Roelfsema and Schuiteman 1990 photo good; AOS Bulletin Vol 66 #1 1997 photo fide; Orchids of Europe, North Africa and the Middle East Delforge 2005; Orchid Digest Vol 81 #2 2017 photo fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 86 #5 2017 photo fide;
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