NEOTINEARchb.f. - BENLİ ÇAMSALEBİ (in Turkish)
Scientific Description:
Small perennial with entire root tubers and 2–3 green leaves at base. Spike cylindrical, very dense, often slightly twisted. Flowers small, sessile. Sepals and petals forming a closed hood. Labellum 3-lobed, spurred. Column short, with 2 large lateral stigmas, joined below. Anther prominent, pollinia 2, each
with short caudicle attached to a viscidium, both glands enclosed in a single pouch (bursicula). Ovary cylindrical-fusiform, sessile, twisted, glabrous. – Monotypic.
Reference:
Renz J & Taubenheim G (1984). Neotinea Reichb. fil., In: Davis PH (ed.), Flora of Turkey and the East Aegean Islands, Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh, 8: 512.
Public Description:
Neotinea, known as “benli çamsalebi” in Turkish, spreads much of Europe, the Mediterranean region, and the islands of the eastern Atlantic, from the Canaries, Madeira and Ireland east to Iran and Western Siberia. They are tuberous perennial orchids with 2–3 leaves and small dotted white or pink flowers. There are approximately 5 species in the world and 3 species (3 taxa) in Türkiye.
References:
Anonymous 1 (2017). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neotinea/, Accessed date: 09.07.2017.
Anonymous 2 (2017). http://www.bizimbitkiler.org.tr/v2/turkce.php/, Accessed date: 09.07.2017.
Anonymous 3 (2017). http://www.theplantlist.org/1.1/browse/A/Orchidaceae/Neotinea//, Accessed date: 09.07.2017..
Güler N (2012). Neotinea Rchb.f., 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. 638.
