Forum Werkgroep Europese orchideeën (WEO)

Hello, the interpretation of Delforge ist absolutely irrelevant. Important is only the original description of GRISEBACH (1845). One of GRISEBACHs important character was " 6) praecipue vero brevitate calcaris ovarium dimidium aequantis (nes superantis). " = "Spur short, not longer than the half of ...

For elodes is the spur to long. SCZEPANSKI, S. (2006): Zur Kenntnis einer bislang wenig beachteten Unterart von Dactylorhiza maculata (L.) SOÒ in Nordrhein-Westfalen: Dactylorhiza maculata subsp. elodes (GRISEB.) SOÒ. – J. Eur. Orch. 38 (4): 867-896 here: http://sczepanski-fotografie.de/downloads/Sc...

Dear Gerrit,

you photographed D. traunsteineri s.l. and D. incarnata there!

All the best
Sebastian
http://www.sczepanski-fotografie.de

from Duitsland!

Dactylorhiza wirtgenii (Höppner) Soó [Bas.: Orchis wirtgenii Höppner] is only the hybrid D. incarnata s.str. x D. maculata s.str.!

http://sczepanski-fotografie.de/NeuerOr ... Wenker.pdf

-Sebastian-