Epipactis helleborine
Epipactis helleborine
Subsp bithynica: Ulubindallı; Subsp densifolia : Sıkbindallı; Subsp helleborine : Bindallıçiçeği; Subsp levantina: Hatay bindallısı
Plant 40-100 cm. Leaves 5-12, ± spreading, ovate, less often lanceolate, acuminate, 5-15 x 3-5 cm. Raceme dense, usually more than 30-flowered. Perianth spreading, to 18 mm diam., pale green to red-purple. Petals yellowishgreen, pink or purplish. Hypochile greenish, reddish or brownish within, with nectar. Epichile broadly ovate to broadly cordate, usually obtuse, yellowish-white, reddish or purplish with ±rugose, often very prominent callosities at base. Allogamous. Fl. 6-7. Woods; open scrub,s.l.-1800 m.
N. & N.W. Iran, Afghanistan, Pakistan; N. America.