Biology:Dactylorhiza purpurella

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Short description: Species of flowering plant in the orchid family Orchidaceae


Northern marsh orchid
Dactylorhiza purpurella - Northern marsh orchid 1.jpg
Dactylorhiza purpurella
Scientific classification edit
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Monocots
Order: Asparagales
Family: Orchidaceae
Subfamily: Orchidoideae
Genus: Dactylorhiza
Species:
D. purpurella
Binomial name
Dactylorhiza purpurella
(T. Stephenson & T.A. Stephenson) Soó (1962)
Synonyms[1]
  • Orchis purpurella T. Stephenson & T.A. Stephenson (1920) (Basionym)
  • Dactylorchis purpurella (T. Stephenson & T.A. Stephenson) Verm. (1947)
  • Dactylorhiza majalis ssp. purpurella (T. Stephenson & T.A. Stephenson) D.M. Moore & Soó (1978)
  • Dactylorhiza majalis var. purpurella (T. Stephenson & T.A. Stephenson) R.M. Bateman & Denholm (1983)
  • Dactylorhiza cambrensis (R.H.Roberts) Aver.
  • also several more varietal names proposed

Dactylorhiza purpurella, the northern marsh orchid,[2] is an orchid native to Great Britain, Ireland, the Netherlands, Denmark and Norway .[1]

Two varieties are recognised:[1]

  • Dactylorhiza purpurella var. cambrensis (R.H.Roberts) R.M.Bateman & Denholm - coastal Great Britain and Denmark
  • Dactylorhiza purpurella subsp. purpurella - Ireland and northern Great Britain. Recorded from Co. Donegal in Ireland.[3]

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
  2. (xls) BSBI List 2007, Botanical Society of Britain and Ireland, https://bsbi.org/download/3542/, retrieved 2014-10-17 
  3. Ennis, T. The occurrence of Dactylorhiza purpurella (T. Stephenson and T.A. Stephenson) Soó var. majalifiormis (E. Nelson) Kreutz, in Co. Donegal. Ir. Nat. J. 33: 128

External links


Wikidata ☰ Q949151 entry