Epipactis turcica Kreutz 1997

Plant and flowers in situ Turkey Photos © by JJM and The Pharmanatura Website

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Common Name The Turkey Epipactis

Flower Size .8" [to 2 cm]

Found in the eastern Aegean Islands and Turkey in short grasslands, scrub, pine forests and open oak woodlands at elevations of 300 to 1500 meters as a small sized, cold growing terrestrial with thick, flexuous, pale green washed red at base and rather densely hairy towards the tip, erect stems carrying 7 or so, pale to dark green, more or less spirally arranged, clustered towards the base and then up to midway of the stem cauline leaves the lower ones broadly ovate-lanceolate, the median narrower and the upper grading to bracts that blooms in the later spring and early summer on a terminal, erect, near one sided, elongated, nearlax, to 40 flowered inflorescence

Synonyms Epipactis tremolsii subsp. turcica (Kreutz) Kreutz 2004

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

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