Published December 31, 1980 | Version v1
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Coeloglossum viride Hartm. 1820

Description

1. C. viride (L.) Hartman,

Handb. Skand. FI. 329 (1820).

Tubers with 2-4 tapering segments. Stem 6-35(-40) cm, angled above, with brownish, sheathing basal scales. Leaves 2-5, 3—8(—11) cm, the basal suborbicular to elliptic-ovate or -lanceo­ late, obtuse, the upper smaller, lanceolate, acute. Spike 2-10 (-15) cm, cylindrical, 5- to 25-flowered. Flowers inconspicuous, greenish, sometimes with reddish or purplish-brown tint. Perianth-segments 4-5-6(-7) mm, subequal; outer ovate, sub- obtuse, the median concave; inner narrower, linear, subobtuse. Labellum 6-8(-9) mm, obcuneate, flat, yellowish or yellowish- brown, the middle apical tooth shorter than the lateral. Spur c. 2 mm, saccate, obtuse, greenish-white. 2n = 40.

Grassland and wood-margins. Europe southwards to C. Spain, S. Appennini, S. Bulgaria and Krym, but only on mountains in the south.

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Notes

Published as part of D. M. Moore (ed.), 1980, CCIII Orchidaceae, pp. 325-350 in Flora Europaea, Vol 5: Alismataceae to Orchidaceae, Camebridge :Cambridge University Press on page 333, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.215522

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Biodiversity

Family
Orchidaceae
Genus
Coeloglossum
Kingdom
Plantae
Order
Asparagales
Phylum
Tracheophyta
Scientific name authorship
Hartm.
Species
viride
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Coeloglossum viride Hartm., 1820 sec. Moore, 1980