Epipactis persica (Soó) Hausskn. ex Nannf. 1946 Photo by © Spyros Tsiftsis and the Orchids of Greece Blogspot

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Common Name The Iranian Epipactis

Flower Size .8" [2 cm]

Found in Italy, Greece, Turkey, Iran, Afghanistan, Pakistan and the western Himalayas in shady site in beech and conifer forests at elevations of 200 to 2700 meters as a miniature to medium sized, cool to cold growing terrestrial with erect, spindley, green, sometimes purplish based, hairless to slightly puberulous above stems carrying 2 to 5, often dark green, spreading, curved cauline leaves, 1 to 4, oval to lanceolate leaves that blooms in the late spring and summer on an erect, lax, 5 to 30 flowered inflorescence

CAUTION I have no way of verifying this species as it is not well represented in any of my references

Synonyms Epipactis helleborine subsp. persica (Soó) H.Sund. 1980; Epipactis microphylla subsp. persica (Soó) Hautz. 1976; *Helleborine persica Soó 1927

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; AOS Bulletin Vol 54 #5 1985; Orchids of Europe, North Africa and the Middle East Delforge 2006 photo fide; Orchids of India A Glimpse Misra 2007;

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