HIMANTOGLOSSUMSpreng. - KEŞKEŞÇİÇEĞİ (in Turkish)
Scientific Description:
Robust perennials. Tubers large, ovate-oblong. Stem with lanceolate to oblong leaves. Spike many-flowered, broad. Sepals and petals connivent, forming an obtuse hood. Petals narrow, adhering to sepals. Labellum spurred, 3-lobed; middle lobe strap-shaped, ± spirally twisted, divided at apex into long segments; lateral lobes much shorter, falcately lanceolate to triangular, with undulate margins. Anther obtuse, caudicles of pollinia attached to a single viscidium, enclosed in a pouch (bursicula). Ovary cylindrical, minutely pedicellate or sessile, twisted, glabrous.
Reference:
Renz J & Taubenheim G (1984). Himantoglossum W. D. Koch, In: Davis PH (ed.), Flora of Turkey and the East Aegean Islands, Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh, 8: 507.
Public Description:
Himantoglossum is a genus of orchids, known as “keşkeşçiçeği” in Turkish, native to the Canary Islands, Europe, southwest Asia and northern Africa. There are approximately 12 species in the world and 4 species (4 taxa) in Türkiye. The members of this genus generally have a labellum in their flowers which is divided into three parts, of which the middle part is the longest. “Himantoglossum” literally means "strap tongue", and refers to the long thin lip.
References:
Anonymous 1 (2016). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Himantoglossum/, Accessed date: 03.03.2016.
Anonymous 2 (2016). http://www.orchidsofbritainandeurope.co.uk/Genus%20Himantoglossum.html/, Accessed date: 03.03.2016.
Anonymous 3 (2016). http://www.theplantlist.org/1.1/browse/A/Orchidaceae/Himantoglossum/,Accessed date: 03.03.2016.
Deniz Gİ (2012). Himantoglossum Spreng., 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. 637.
