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Orchid Species: Orchis sesquipedalis

Kew currently accepted name is Dactylorhiza elata

Orchis sesquipedalis is an orchid species identified by Willd. in 1805. Culture information and photos for this orchid are commonly detailed under the currently accepted name of Dactylorhiza elata.
Genus
Orchis (Orchis.)
Grex
sesquipedalis
Parents
Species
Author
Willd.
Year
1805
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ORIGIN: A medium to giant sized, cool growing terrestrial orchid from Portugal, Spain, France, Corsica, Sardinia, Algeria, Morocco and Tunisia in fens, damp meadows, seapages and banks at elevations up to 2500 meters.

DESCRIPTION: A medium to giant sized, cool growing terrestrial orchid from Portugal, Spain, France, Corsica, Sardinia, Algeria, Morocco and Tunisia in fens, damp meadows, seapages and banks at elevations up to 2500 meters with a hollow stemcarrying 5 to 10, cauline, narrowly to broadly ovate-lanceolate, unspotted to rarely lightly spotted, erect leaves that are smaller in size and more bractlike as they near inflorescence that blooms in the late spring and early summer on a terminal, erect, 6.4 to 12.8 [16 to 32 cm] long, lax, or densely [30 to 120] flowered, racemose inflorescence that has leaf-like bracts.

-- information provided by Jay Pfahl, author of the Internet Orchid Species Encyclopedia (IOSPE).
Other Names
Genus Name Genus Grex Name Year Author
Add+ Dactylorhiza Dact elata 1962 (Poir.) Soó
Add+ Dactylorhiza Dact occitanica 1995 Geniez, Melki, Pain & Soca
Add+ Gymnadenia Gym elata 1835 (Poir.) Lindl.
Add+ Orchidactyla Orc kabyliensis 1986 (G.Keller) Aver.
Add+ Orchis Orchis africana 1938 (Klinge) A.W.Hill
Add+ Orchis Orchis kabyliensis 1933 G.Keller
Add+ Orchis Orchis lusitanica 1841 Steud.
Add+ Orchis Orchis munbyana 1852 Boiss. & Reut.
Add+ Orchis Orchis rassautae 1962 (Alleiz.) Alleiz.
Add+ Orchis Orchis vestita 1803 Lag. & Rodr.
Add+ Dactylorchis Dtylo elata 1947 (Poir.) Verm.
Add+ Dactylorhiza Dact elata ssp. sesquipedalis 1962 (Willd.) Soó
Add+ Dactylorhiza Dact brennensis 1988 (E.Nelson) D.Tyteca & Gathoye
Add+ Dactylorhiza Dact munbyana 1984 (Boiss. & Reut.) Holub
Add+ Dactylorhiza Dact sesquipedalis 1971 (Willd.) M.Laínz
Add+ Dactylorhiza Dact vestita 1986 (Lag. & Rodr.) Aver.
Add+ Dactylorchis Dtylo munbyana 1947 (Boiss. & Reut.) Verm.
Add+ Dactylorchis Dtylo sesquipedalis 1947 (Willd.) Verm.
Add+ Orchis Orchis elata 1789 Poir.
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