Dactylorhiza osmanica
Dactylorhiza osmanica
Osmanlı salebi
Plants 20-60 cm. Stem solid or hollow, leafy. Leaves 5-8, broadly lanceolate or lanceolate, 10-15 x 2-4 cm, sometimes folded. Spike cylindrical, dense, 8-20 cm. Bracts lanceolate, lower exceeding the purplish; rarely creamy-white flowers. Sepals and petals ovate-lanceolate, subobtuse; sepals 9-12 x 4-5 mm, petals slightly shorter. Labellum mostly entire, sometimes subentire, suborbicular, 7-10 x 9-12 mm, with darker coloured interrupted loops and spots. Spur conical-acute, shorter than ovary, 5-8 mm, 3-4 mm broad at base.
1. Plants 20-60 cm; stem solid or slightly hollow, with 4-6 usually ±flat leaves; spike 8-12 cm, dense; flowers purplish or rose-purplish, rarely white var.osmanica
1. Plants stout, very large, 60-100 cm; stern hollow, with 8-10 usually folded leaves; spike 15-24 cm, very dense; flowers dark purplish, sometimes creamy-white var. anatolica
