Dactylorhiza euxina
Dactylorhiza euxina
Ssp armeniaca: Çayırparmağı; Ssp euxina: Laz salebi
Revizyon: Ssp armeniaca ; Ssp euxina var euxina; Ssp euxina var markowitschii
Plants 7-25 cm. Stem hollow, with 3-6 ovate to lanceolate leaves; lower leaves obtuse, upper acute, equalling or exceeding spike, all with numerous minute blackish-violet spots or fine streaks, sometimes regularly arranged in lines parallel to veins, or unspotted, sometimes flushed with purplish-violet on both sides. Spike shortly cylindrical, 3-7 cm, dense. Lower bracts lanceolate, exceeding flowers, ± spotted or tinged blackish-violet. Flowers dark magenta purple or crimson. Sepals ovate-lanceolate, acute or acuminate, ±faintly spotted, to 12 x 5 mm. Petals slightly smaller. Labellum usually broader than long, 9-10 x 8-11 mm, entire or subentire, margins irregularly erose-dimtateor even fringed, faintly spotted, slightly papillose towards base. Spur saccate-cylindrical, ± obtuse, shorter than ovary, 6-9 mm, to 3-4 mm broad near base.
1. Plants slender, 15-25 cm; leaves 3-4, rather small;evenly distributed on stem, narrowly oblong to lanceolate, 4-6 x 1-1.5 cm, mostly obtuse, rarely unspotted, uppermost bract-like, ±reaching spike;labellum roundish, 9-10 x 8-11 mm var. euxina
1. Plants dwarf, compact, 5-15 cm; leaves 4-5, densely covering stem, ovate to lanceolate, 3-6 x 1.5-3 cm, frequently unspotted, reaching or exceeding spike; labellum mostly broader than long, to 8 x 13-15 mm, sometimes with conspicuously projecting triangular or tooth like lobe at apex var. markowitschii
