Cephalanthera damasonium (Miller) Druce 1906

Main Author: D. M. Moore (ed.)
Format: info publication-taxonomictreatment Journal
Terbitan: Cambridge University Press , 1980
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Online Access: https://zenodo.org/record/6283044
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  • 1. C. damasonium (Miller) Druce, Ann. Scott. Nat. Hist. 1906: 225 (1906) (C. alba (Crantz)) Simonkai, C. grandiflora S. F. Gray, C.pallens L. C. M. Richard ). Stem 15-60 cm, erect, angled, glabrous, with 2-3 brownish basal sheaths. Leaves 4-10 cm, subobtuse to acuminate, the lowest short, ovate-lanceolate, the middle oblong-ovate, the upper lanceolate. Spike up to 12 cm, 3- to 12(-16)-flowered. Flowers white or creamy-white, usually closed and tubular-campanulate, all but lowest much exceeded by bracts. Perianth-segments 15-20 mm, obtuse; outer oblong; inner lateral oblong-lanceolate, shorter than the outer. Labellum shorter than other perianth-segments, white, yellowish within, with an orange-yellow crescentic mark at base of hypo­ chile; epichile with 3-5 orange-yellow ridges, obtuse; spur absent. Ovary glabrous. 2n= 32. Woods and other shady places; some­ what calcicole. S., C. & W. Europe, northwards to England and S. E. Sweden, and extending eastwards to S. W. part of U. S. S. R. Al Au Be B 1 Br Bu Co Cz Da Ga Ge Gr He Ho Hs Hu It Ju Po Rm Rs (B, C, W, K) Sa Si Su Tu.
  • Published as part of D. M. Moore (ed.), 1980, CCIII Orchidaceae, pp. 325-350 in Flora Europaea, Vol 5: Alismataceae to Orchidaceae, Camebridge :Cambridge University Press on page 328, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.215522