Nigritella nigra [L.]Rchb.f subs. austriaca Teppner & Klein 1830 Photo courtesy of V. et V. Lecomte and the Orchids of France and Europe
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Common Name The Black Nigritella The Black Vanilla Orchid
Flower Size about 1/4" [about .5 cm]
This small to medium sized, cool to cold growing terrestrial herb with lobed tubers and angled, slender stems carrying several linear-lanceolate, channeled, minutely dentate, green leaves that is found from Scandanavia to Greece and has Vanilla scented flowers that occur in the summer on a robust, erect, 2 to 10" [5 to 25 cm] long inflorescence that has the successive opening flowers in a apical cluster.
Synonyms *Satyrium nigrum L. 1753
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Die Orchideen #4 13-16 tafel 5 Rudolph Schlechter 1971 photo ok;
Nigritella nigra subsp. iberica Teppner & Klein 1993
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Found in France and Spain as cool to cold growing terrestrial orchids that bloom in the late spring and summer on a robust, erect inflorescence that has the flowers in a apical cluster with the flowers opening in succession.
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