Cephalanthera epipactoides

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Plants 30-100 cm. Stem stout, leafy throughout. Lower leaves sheath-like, amplexicaul, upper flat, ovate-lanceolate, to 4 cm, passing into leaf-like bracts. Spike to 40 cm, ±dense and many-flowered. Bracts exceeding flowers. Flowers white. Sepals lanceolate, 25-30 mm. Petals ovate-lanceolate, slightly shorter. Epichile ovate-lanceolate, glabrous, sometimes minutely papillose on margins, with 6-9 brownish-yellow longitudinal crests; lateral lobes of hypochile ± truncate. Spur conical, 3-4 mm. Fl. 4-6. Macchie, coniferous and Quercus forest and scrub, on limestone-rich soil, s.l. -1200 m.