Cephalanthera kurdica

 Kurtkuşçuğu

Plants rather slender, sometimes dwarf, 10-50 cm. Stem with sheaths in lower part, leafy above. Leaves ovate-lanceolate, to 5 cm, passing into leaflike bracts. Spike ± dense, many-flowered, to 40 cm, with flowers sometimes borne just above soil. Flowers bright rose, rarely whitish. Sepals slightly spreading, to 25 mm. Petals shorter. Hypochile with broadly triangular lateral lobes; epichile cordate-ovate, with 6-7 longitudinal crests, margins minutely papillose. Spur conical, c. 4 mm. Fl. 4-5. Macchie, Quercus and coniferous forest, preferring calcareous and schistose soil, to 1500 m.