Cap orchis
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Cape Orchis ( Steveniella satyrioides ) |
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The orchid species Kappenorchis ( Steveniella satyrioides ) stands alone in the monotypical genus Steveniella . It belongs to the orchid family (Orchidaceae).
features
The cap orchis has 2 ovoid-spherical bulbs . The stem reaches heights of 15 to 40, rarely up to 60 centimeters. It has 2 sheathed scale leaves at the bottom, a large leaf on the bottom and two long-sheathed scale leaves above. The leaves are 6 to 20 centimeters long, 1.5 to 6.5 centimeters wide, oblong-lanceolate and curved downwards. In addition, like the entire plant, it is often covered in brownish purple. The inflorescence , which usually consists of up to 20, rarely up to 30 flowers , is up to 13 (rarely up to 18) centimeters long. The flowers are erect. The bracts can be as long as the ovary or much shorter. The sepals are 7 to 10 millimeters long, overgrown with olive green and brown-purple and fused together to form a three-toothed helmet. The lateral petals measure 4 to 7 × 0.4 to 0.5 millimeters. The lip is 6 to 7 millimeters long, finely papillary, olive-green to greenish-yellow in color, purple and three-lobed at the base. Your middle lobe is inverted ovoid, the side lobes are short and rounded-rhombic. The spur is broadly conically shaped with a two-column tip and 2 to 4 millimeters long, at the base it is just as wide.
The flowering time is in April and May.
Occurrence
The cap orchid is an east-sub-Mediterranean floral element. Their range includes the foothills of the Black Sea in northeast Anatolia and in the Crimea as well as in the Caucasus and in northern and western Iran. It grows on lime-rich soils in light coniferous and deciduous forests, in grassy forest edges, in bushes and in hazelnut plantations from the plain to the lower submontane level at altitudes of up to 1,300 meters, in Iran also up to 2,100 meters.
ecology
Paravespula vulgaris and Dolichovespula sylvestris were observed as pollinators .
Name declaration
The genus name Steveniella honors the Finnish botanist and entomologist of Swedish origin Christian von Steven (1781 - 1863).
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d Karl-Peter Buttler : Orchids . Mosaik Verlag, Munich 1986, ISBN 3-570-04403-3 , page 104.
- ^ Helmut Baumann , Siegfried Künkele and Richard Lorenz: Orchids in Europe with adjacent areas . Verlag Eugen Ulmer, Stuttgart, 2006. ISBN 978-3-8001-4162-3 . Page 302.
- ↑ Lotte Burkhardt: Directory of eponymous plant names . Extended Edition. Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum Berlin, Free University Berlin Berlin 2018. [1]
