Dactylorhiza romana
Dactylorhiza romana
Subsp georgica: Çamkökü; Subsp romana: Elçik
Plants 15-40 cm. Base of stem with 2-3 large brownish sheaths, enclosing the numerous linear to lanceolate leaves. Spike shortly cylindrical. Bracts herbaceous, exceeding the violet-purple, dull red or yellow flowers. Sepals oblong, to 13 x 5 mm; lateral sepals ±reflexed. Petals obliquely ovate, 10 x 4-7 mm. Labellum ± stretched forwards, ovate to broadly ovate, to 15 mm broad, shortly 3-lobed in front, sometimes entire, without dots or lines. Spur 10-25 mm.
1. Flowers red to yellow, rather large; labellum usually broader than long, to 15 mm broad; spur cylindrical, longer than ovary, 17-20 mm, curved ± steeply upwards subsp. romana
1. Flowers mainly yellow, rather small; labellum usually longer than broad, to 8 mm broad; spur narrowly cylindrical, equalling or shorter than ovary, 10-12 mm, ± straight, directed horizontally or slightly upwards subsp. georgica
