Anacamptis morio alba

"Anacamptis morio (L.) R.M.Bateman, Pridgeon & M.W.Chase, the green-winged orchid or green-veined orchid (synonym Orchis morio), is a flowering plant of the orchid family, Orchidaceae. It usually has purple flowers, and is found in Europe and the Middle East." 

Anacamptis morio (L.) R.M.Bateman, Pridgeon & M.W.Chase, Lindleyana 12(3): 120 (1997): (1997).

Anacamptis morio alba, Photo by Wiel Driessen

Anacamptis morio, Photo by Wiel Driessen

its native range is Europe, Medit. to Iran. 

Latin Name: 

Anacamptis morio (L.) R.M.Bateman, Pridgeon & M.W.Chase 

Family: 

Orchidaceae Juss.

Accepted Infraspecifics:

Anacamptis morio subsp. caucasica (K.Koch) H.Kretzschmar, Eccarius & H.Dietr.

Anacamptis morio subsp. champagneuxii (Barnéoud) H.Kretzschmar, Eccarius & H.Dietr.

Anacamptis morio nothosubsp. cortesii (E.G.Camus & A.Camus) J.M.H.Shaw

Anacamptis morio nothosubsp. litardierei (Ruppert & Lebrun) J.M.H.Shaw

Anacamptis morio subsp. longicornu (Poir.) H.Kretzschmar, Eccarius & H.Dietr.

Anacamptis morio subsp. morio

Anacamptis morio subsp. picta (Loisel.) Jacquet & Scappat.

Anacamptis morio subsp. syriaca (E.G.Camus) H.Kretzschmar, Eccarius & H.Dietr.

Synonym:

Herorchis morio (L.) D.Tyteca & E.Klein

Orchis morio L.

English Name:

The Fool Anacamptis - The Green Winged Orchid

Description: 

It has a thick, washed with violet at the tip stem and carrying 5 to 9 basal, oblong-lanceolate to oblong-ovate leaves the uppermost becoming leaf sheaths that blooms in the later spring on a pyramidal, or oblong, 5 to 10 cm long, densly many 5 to 25 flowered inflorescence with the uppermost flowers opening last and has lanceolate bracts.

Distribution:

Albania, Algeria, Austria, Baleares, Baltic States, Belarus, Belgium, Bulgaria, Corse, Cyprus, Czechoslovakia, Denmark, East Aegean Is., France, Germany, Great Britain, Greece, Hungary, Iran, Iraq, Ireland, Italy, Kriti, Krym, Lebanon-Syria, Morocco, Netherlands, North Caucasus, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Sardegna, Sicilia, South European Russi, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Transcaucasus, Tunisia, Turkey, Turkey-in-Europe, Ukraine, Yugoslavia.

Ecological:

In short, poor grasslands, meadows, alpine pastures and forest fringes at elevations up to 2000 m as a miniature to small sized, cold growing terrestrial.

Flowering times:

Blooms in the later spring.

Flower size:

2.0 cm.

Cultivation:

Type:

Reference: 

- theplantlist.org

- ipni.org/n/998308-1

- powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:998308-1

- en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anacamptis_morio

- orchidspecies.com/orcmorio.htm.

- andysorchids.com/pictureframe.asp?picId=6923