LIMODORUMBoehm. - TUBEROUS GRASS-PINK
Scientific Description:
Saprophytic leafless perennials. Rhizome with fleshy roots, Stem covered with scale-like sheaths. Spike lax, many-flowered. Flowers large, showy. Sepals and petals divergent. Labellum spurred, divided into a narrow hypochile and broader epichile, or entire and similar to sepals and petals (not in Türkiye). Column slender. Pollinia 2, powdery-granular, adherent to a round viscidium. Ovary cylindrical, shortly pedicellate or subsessile, glabrous. Ripe capsule distinctly stalked, considerably enlarged after flowering. – Ditypic.
Reference:
Renz J & Taubenheim G (1984). Limodorum Boehmer, In: Davis PH (ed.), Flora of Turkey and the East Aegean Islands, Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh, 8: 469.
Public Description:
Limodorum, commonly known as “tuberous grass-pink”, is native to Central Europe, the Mediterranean region as far east as Iran and the Caucasus. There are 3 species in the world and 1 species (2 taxa) in Türkiye. They are tuberous perennial herb with large and showy flowers on a slender stem.
References:
Anonymous 1 (2017). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Limodorum, Accessed date: 10.05.2017.
Anonymous 2 (2017). http://www.theplantlist.org/1.1/browse/A/Orchidaceae/Limodorum/, Accessed date: 10.05.2017.
Anonymous 3 (2017). https://gobotany.newenglandwild.org/search/?q=limodorum, Accessed date: 10.05.2017.
Deniz İG (2012). Limodorum Boehm., 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. 637–638.
