DACTYLORHIZANeck. - MARSH ORCHID
Scientific Description:
Tubers flat, palmately divided or napiform, shortly lobed. Stem solid or ± hollow, leafy. Leaves with or without purplish spots. Emerging spike not enclosed by spathe-like leaves. Bracts herbaceous, often exceeding the rose-purple, purplish-violet, yellow or rarely white flowers. Lateral sepals erect, spreading or reflexed; dorsal sepal ± erect, connivent with the shorter petals to form a loose hood. Labellum entire or ± 3-lobed, spurred, minutely papillose above, with darker coloured patterns of lines and dots. Spur cylindrical or conical, ± equalling ovary. Column short, erect; middle lobe of rostellum situated between parallel anther loculi; pollinia clavate, with caudicles, each adherent to a gland (viscidium), the 2 glands enclosed in a single pouch (bursicula). Ovary sessile, glabrous.
Reference:
Renz J & Taubenheim G (1984). Dactylorhiza Neck. ex Nevski, In: Davis PH (ed.), Flora of Turkey and the East Aegean Islands, Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh, 8: 535.
Public Description:
Dactylorhiza, commonly known as “marsh orchid”, “long-bracted green orchid” or “spotted orchid”, is native to Europe, Asia, North Africa, Middle East and North America. There are approximately 115 species in the world and 23 species (40 taxon) in Türkiye. The name “Dactylorhiza” is derived from Greek words "daktylos (finger)" and "rhiza (root)", referring to the palmately two- to five-lobed tubers which is flattened and finger-like. Marsh orchid grows on wet soils, and are found in moist forests, prairies, meadows, and bogs.
References:
Anonymous 1 (2017). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dactylorhiza, Accessed date: 04.05.2017.
Anonymous 2 (2017). http://www.aos.org/orchids/orchids-a-to-z/letter-d/dactylorhiza.aspx,Accessed date: 04.05.2017.
Anonymous 3 (2017). http://www.theplantlist.org/1.1/browse/A/Orchidaceae/Dactylorhiza/,Accessed date: 04.05.2017.
Anonymous 4 (2017). http://goorchids.northamericanorchidcenter.org/genus/dactylorhiza/.Accessed date: 04.05.2017.
Güler N (2012). Dactylorhiza Necker ex Nevski, In: Güner, A., Aslan, S., Ekim, T., Vural, M. & Babaç, M.T. (eds.), Türkiye Bitkileri Listesi (Damarlı Bitkiler). Nezahat Gökyiğit Botanik Bahçesi ve Flora Araştırmaları Derneği Yayını. İstanbul, pp. 631–635.
