Higher classification Epipactis | Scientific name Epipactis palustris Rank Species | |
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Similar Epipactis, Epipactis helleborine, Orchids, Dactylorhiza incarnata, Epipactis atrorubens | ||
Marsh helleborines epipactis palustris
Epipactis palustris (marsh helleborine) is an orchid native to Europe, Turkey, north Iraq, the Caucasus, north Iran, West and East Siberia and Central Asia. This species occurs in the Sarmatic mixed forests ecoregion.
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Orchid pollination 16 pollination of epipactis palustris by honeybees
Description
This species has a stem growing to 60 cm high with erect leaves up to 12 cm long. The flowers are 17 mm across arranged in a one-sided raceme. In the typical form, the sepals are coloured deep pink or purplish-red, the upper petals shorter and paler. The labellum at least as long as the sepals, white with red or yellow spots in the middle. Variants without most of the reddish colours of the typical form have been called E. palustris var. ochroleuca.
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