Neotinea tridentata subsp. conica (Willd.) R.M.Bateman, Pridgeon & M.W.Chase 1997

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O tridentata Group

Common Name The Conical Neotinea

Flower Size 3/4" [1.8 cm]

Found in Portugal, Spain, Balearic Islands, France, Sardinia, Sicily, Italy, Malta, Algeria and Morocco in short, poor grasslands, open garrigue and open woodlands up to 800 meters as a miniature to small sized, cold to cool growing terrestrial orchid with a basal rosete, of 3 to 8, unmarked, glaucose green, lanceolate leaves and 1 to 3, bract-like cauline leaves above that blooms in the late winter and spring on a dense, initially conical and short, sometimes becoming long-subglobular, many flowered inflorescence..

Synonyms Neotinea conica (Willd.) R.M.Bateman 2003; Neotinea conica f. gelpiana F.M.Vázquez 2009; Neotinea conica f. rosea F.M.Vázquez 2009; Neotinea conica var. ricardina F.M.Vázquez 2008; Neotinea conica var. saenzii F.M.Vázquez 2008; Odontorchis conica (Willd.) D.Tyteca & E.Klein 2008; Orchis broteroana Rivas Goday & Bellot 1946; Orchis conica Willdenow 1805; Orchis globosa Brot. 1804; Orchis lactea subsp. conica (Willd.) Kreutz 2004; Orchis lactea subsp. broteroana (Rivas Goday & Bellot) Rivas Goday 1964; Orchis lactea var. conica (Willd.) H.Baumann & R.Lorenz 2005; Orchis pusilla Tyteca 1984; Orchis tridentata subsp. conica (Willd.) O.Bolòs & Vigo 2001

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

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