you will receive 1 bulb NOT PLANT - Name also: Salep Orchid, Dead Mans Fingers, Male Orchis, Early-purple Orchid
- Family: Orchid Family – Orchidaceae
- Growing form: Perennial herb. Root tubers small, egg-shaped.
- Height: 25–40 cm (10–16 in.). Upper stem reddish.
- Flower: Perianth irregular (zygomorphic), dark red, occasionally pink or white, approx. 1.5–2 cm (0.6–0.8 in.) wide. Tepals 6, in 2 whorls, of which one elaborated into labellum, upper tepals spreading, not curving together. Labellum under perianth, spurred, lighter in middle, dark-dotted, 3-lobed–lobeless. Spur long, slightly ascending oblique. Androecium and gynoecium fused into a column, stamens 1, stigmas 2. Inflorescence a cylindrical, 10–20-flowered spike. Flowers’ subtending bracts membranous, purple.
- Leaves: 3–4 stalkless leaves at base like rosette and alternate sheathing leaves on stem. Blade elliptic–lanceolate–linear, with entire margin, upper surface dark green–greyish green, without spots–spotted, spots often large. Emerging inflorescence protected by sheath-like upper leaves.
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