Dactylorhiza fuchsii
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Description
Like D. maculata, but the lowest leaves are rounded at the apex, the flower is redder, and the lip of the flower is different.
Growing form
Perennial herb with root tubers.
Size
20–50 cm high.
Stem
The stem is stout and not hollow.
Leaf
The stem is foliate along its length. The lowest 2–4 leaves are obovate, rounded at the apex, compressed, maculate above, blue-gray beneath. The upper leaves are small, narrow, acute and the uppermost leaf does not reach up to the level of the inflorescence. The transition from lower to upper leaves is abrupt. The floral bracts are light-colored, typically shorter than the flowers and serrate.
Root
The root tubers are deeply lobed.
Flower
The inflorescence is a dense, conoidal, many-flowered spike. The flower is red and mottled. The lip is deflexed, broad, spurred and deeply cleft into three lobes. The middle lobe is narrowly deltoid and longer than the lateral lobes.
Fruit and seed
The fruit is a capsule. The seeds are dust-like.
The map represents observations of this taxon, but it may not be used as a distribution map.
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- kielikämmekkä (Finnish)
- skogsnycklar (Swedish)
- AOV - spontaneous, old, resident
Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Flora and Fauna - CITES, Appendix II ? EU regulation regarding CITES, Appendix B ? Aapamire species – SUMI Project 2020 ? Vascular plants – SUMI Project 2022 ? Safeguarding Endangered Species in Forestry – Lajiturva Project 2019–2021 ? Regionally Threatened 2020 - 1a Hemiboreal, Åland ? Regionally Threatened 2020 - 1b Hemiboreal, Oak zone ? Regionally Threatened 2020 - 2a Southern boreal, Southwestern Finland and Southern Ostrobothnia ? Regionally Threatened 2020 - 2b Southern boreal, Lake district ? Regionally Threatened 2020 - 3a Middle boreal, Ostrobothnia ? Regionally Threatened 2020 - 4c Northern boreal, Forest Lapland ? Regionally Threatened 2020 - 4d Northern boreal, Fjeld Lapland ?
- 2019 NT – Near Threatened
- 2010 NT – Near Threatened
- 2000 DD – Data Deficient
- Pertti Uotila
- Vascular plants