Epipactis pontica Taubenheim 1975

Plant and flowers in situ Austria Photos © by A. Mrkvicka and The Naturhistorische Museum Wien Website

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Common Name The Black Sea Epipactis

Flower Size .6" [1.5 cm]

Found in Czechloslovakia, Austria, Hungary, Italy, Yugoslavia, Greece, the Transcaucaus and Turkey in old growth deciduous forests at elevations of 500 to 1500 meters as a small to just medium sized, cold growing terrestrial with spindly, densely hairy stems carrying 3 to 7, dark green, more or less spirally arranged, spreading-erect cauline leaves that blooms in the late spring and summer on a terminal, erect, 1.2 to 2.8" [3 to 7 cm] long, lax, often near one sided, 7 to 14 flowered inflorescence

Synonyms Epipactis helleborine subsp. pontica (Taubenheim) H.Sund. 1980; Epipactis persica subsp. pontica (Taubenheim) H.Baumann & R.Lorenz 2005

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; AOS Bulletin Vol 54 #5 1985; Orchids of Europe, North Africa and the Middle east Delforge 2005 photo fide

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