Epipactis veratrifolia
Epipactis veratrifolia
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Rhizome creeping. Plant 50-100 cm. Leaves 6-10, ovate-lanceolate to lanceolate, acuminate, to 20 x 4 cm. Raceme secund, rather lax with 15-20 slightly nodding flowers. Rachis, ovary and outer surface of sepals densely white-pubescent. Perianth to 25 mm diam., campanulate; segments brownish-red inside with yellowish-green apex. Hypochile reddish inside, with brown papillae. Epichile whitish with a reddish-brown transverse band, slightly exceeding perianth, lanceolate-triangular, with 2 lateral callosities. Allogamous. Fl. 6-7. Calcareous wet slopes, riverbanks, 200-1500 m.
S.W. & E. Asia, N. Somalia. Ir.-Tur. element.
