Epipactis rechingeri Renz 1973

Plant and flowers in situ Iran Photos © by Jany Renz and The Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria Website

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Common Name Rechinger's Epipactis [Austrian Botanist 1900's]

Flower Size 1" [2.5cm]

Found in northern Iran in damp oak and beechwoods at elevations of 1400 to 2200 meters as a small to large sized, cold growing terrestrial with 1 to 3, elongated, purplish green, rather short hairy at tip stems carrying a few, spreading along the stem, dark green washed violet at lesat on the lower surface, near rounded to oval-oblong, acuminate, far shorter than the respective internode cauline leaves and grading to 1 to 2 bract-like leaves above that blooms in the later summer on a terminal, erect, near dense, to 14" [35 cm] long, many flowered inflorescence

Synonyms Epipactis purpurata subsp. rechingeri (Renz) Kreutz 2006; Epipactis viridiflora subsp. rechingeri (Renz) H.Baumann & R.Lorenz 2005

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Orchids of Europe, North Africa and the Middle east Delforge 2005 photo fide

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