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Southern Marsh-orchid
Dactylorhiza praetermissa
previously: Orchis praetermissa
IDENTIFICATION:
A robust plant up to 70cm tall, with a cluster of five to nine broad, flat, unspotted, greyish-green basal leaves. Several sheathing stem leaves grade into the bracts, which are not as long as those of Early Marsh-orchid. The flower spike is large and can bear more than 100 flowers varying in colour from pale lilacmauve to dark magenta. The lateral sepals are spreading, becoming erect as the flowers mature. The upper sepal and petals form a loose hood. The lip is broad, even spoon-shaped, scarcely three-lobed with a pale central zone marked with small dots and dashes which never form a symmetrical double loop. The spur is thick, finger-shaped and sometimes down-curved. |
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