Cephalanthera epipactoidesFisch. & C.A.Mey. - Ana Çamçiçeği (in Turkish)
Scientific Description:
Plants 30−100 cm. Stem stout, leafy throughout. Lower leaves sheath-like, amplexicaul, upper flat, ovate-lanceolate, to 4(−5) cm, passing into leaf-like bracts. Spike to 40 cm, ± dense and many-flowered. Bracts exceeding flowers. Flowers white. Sepals lanceolate, 25−30 mm. Petals ovate-lanceolate, slightly shorter. Epichile ovate-lanceolate, glabrous, sometimes minutely papillose on margins, with 6−9 brownish-yellow longitudinal crests; lateral lobes of hypochile ± truncate. Spur conical, 3−4 mm.
Flowering time: April−June.
Habitat: Macchie, coniferous and Quercus L. forest and scrub, on limestone-rich soil, s.l.−1200 m.
Reference:
Renz J & Taubenheim G (1984). Cephalanthera epipactoides Fisch. & Mey., In: Davis PH (ed.), Flora of Turkey and the East Aegean Islands, Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh, 8: 458.
Public Description:
Cephalanthera epipactoides, common name the “ana çamçiçeği” in Turkish, is distributed in Greece, Türkiye and the Aegean. It is a rhizomatous perennial orchid with white flowers. Generally it is found in macchie, coniferous and Quercus L. forest and scrub, on limestone-rich soil.
References:
Anonymous (2016). http://www.tubives.com/index.php?sayfa=1&tax_id=9451/,Accessed date: 03.03.2016.
Güler N (2012). Cephalanthera Rich., 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. 630–631.