Dactylorhiza iberica
Dactylorhiza iberica
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Plants slender, 20-40 cm. Tubers napiform, tapering, usually 2-3-lobed near apex. Rootstock with subterranean stolons. Leaves erect, lanceolate-linear, lower broader. Spike narrowly cylindrical, rather lax. Bracts lanceolate, c. as long as ovary. Flowers rose-pink. Sepals and petals converging into a loose hood; sepals ovate-lanceolate, petals narrower. Labellum flat, ± fan-shaped to broadly ovate, shortly 3-lobed, rarely entire, 8-11 mm, with darker dots and lines; lateral lobes semi-ovate, margins ±crenulate; middle lobe small, sometimes tooth-like. Spur slender, pendent, c. 2 x ovary. Fl. 5-7. Wet meadows and marshes, by lakes and streams, nr springs.
Eastern Greece, Crimea, Caucasia, Syria, Palestine, N. & W. Iran. E. Medit. element.
