Cephalanthera rubra

Çamçiçeği

Plants slender, 10-60 cm. Stem leafy, pubescent above. Leaves 3-8, spreading, lanceolate, to 12 cm. Spike usually lax, few- to many-flowered. Bracts lanceolate, lower leaf-like, often exceeding flowers. Flowers bright rose or rose-violet. Sepals spreading, oblong-lanceolate, to 20 mm. Petals slightly shorter. Hypochile whitish with orange-yellow patch at base, lateral lobes oblique-oblong; epichile ovate-lanceolate, acute, to 15 mm, with c. 10 yellowish- brown longitudinal crests. Ovary ± pubescent. Fl. 5-7. Macchie, Quercus scrub, mixed and coniferous forest, mainly on calcareous and schistose soil, nr s.l.-2000 m.