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Orchid Species: Dactylorhiza comosa

Kew currently accepted name is Dactylorhiza incarnata

Dactylorhiza comosa is an orchid species identified by (Scop.) P.D.Sell in P.D.Sell & G.Murrell in 1996. Culture information and photos for this orchid are commonly detailed under the currently accepted name of Dactylorhiza incarnata.
Genus
Dactylorhiza (Dact.)
Grex
comosa
Parents
Species
Author
(Scop.) P.D.Sell in P.D.Sell & G.Murrell
Year
1996
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ORIGIN: Found in Norway, Sweden, Finland, France, Germany, Switzerland, Austria, Italy, Poland and Russia in full sun on very calcareous, wet substrates in marshes, fens with sphagnum, boggy coniferous forests, damp meadows and stream banks at elevations of 1100 to 2500 meters.

DESCRIPTION: This small to medium sized, cold growing terrestrial orchid with a robust stem carrying 3 to 5, spotted, more or less intensely brown-purple on both sides, spreading to near erect, often curved downwards, oval-lanceolate leaves uppermost 1 to 2, bract-like and blooms in the late spring and early summer on a terminal, erect, racemose, 6 to 14" [15 to 35 cm] long, cylindrical inflorescence with leaf-like bracts and many flowers.

FLOWER SIZE: 1/2 inch [1.25 cm] -- 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 incarnata 1962 (L.) Soó
Add+ Dactylorhiza Dact cruenta 1962 (O.F.Müll.) Soó
Add+ Dactylorhiza Dact incarnata ssp. coccinea 1962 (Pugsley) Soó
Add+ Dactylorhiza Dact coccinea 1984 (Pugsley) Aver.
Add+ Dactylorhiza Dact fistulosa 1983 H.Baumann & Künkele
Add+ Dactylorhiza Dact gemmana 1984 (Pugsley) Aver.
Add+ Dactylorhiza Dact incarnata lusus albida 1971 (Rchb.f.) Soó
Add+ Dactylorhiza Dact latifolia 1962 (L.) Soó
Add+ Dactylorhiza Dact ochroleuca 1974 (Wüstnei ex Boll) Holub
Add+ Dactylorhiza Dact pulchella 1984 (Druce) Aver.
Add+ Dactylorhiza Dact strictifolia 1965 (Opiz) Rauschert ex Hudziok
Add+ Dactylorchis Dtylo cruenta 1947 (O.F.Müll.) Verm.
Add+ Dactylorchis Dtylo latifolia 1963 (L.) Rothm.
Add+ Dactylorchis Dtylo incarnata 1947 (L.) Verm.
Add+ Orchis Orchis altaica 1933 (Rchb.f.) Soó
Add+ Orchis Orchis angustifolia 1829 Loisel. ex Rchb.
Add+ Orchis Orchis comosa 1772 F.W.Schmidt
Add+ Orchis Orchis condensa 1866 Schur
Add+ Orchis Orchis cruentiformis 1909 Neuman
Add+ Orchis Orchis divaricata 1807 Rich. ex Loisel.
Add+ Orchis Orchis extensa 1855 (Hartm.) Pritz.
Add+ Orchis Orchis fistulata 1812 Stokes
Add+ Orchis Orchis fistulosa 1794 Moench
Add+ Orchis Orchis haematodes 1830 Rchb.
Add+ Orchis Orchis impudica 1769 Crantz
Add+ Orchis Orchis incarnata 1755 Willd.
Add+ Orchis Orchis incarnata lusus haematodes 1928 (Rchb.) Soó
Add+ Orchis Orchis incarnata lusus pulchella 1925 Höppner
Add+ Orchis Orchis lanceata 1833 A.Dietr.
Add+ Orchis Orchis macra 1866 Schur
Add+ Orchis Orchis matodes 1851 Rchb.f. in H.G.L.Reichenbach
Add+ Orchis Orchis mixta 1779 Retz.
Add+ Orchis Orchis palmata 1792 Gilib.
Add+ Orchis Orchis strictiflora 1825 Opiz
Add+ Orchis Orchis strictifolia 1852 Opiz
Add+ Orchis Orchis tharandina 1851 Rchb.f. in H.G.L.Reichenbach
Add+ Orchis Orchis traunsteineri 1837 Saut. ex W.D.J.Koch
Add+ Orchis Orchis cruenta 1782 O.F.Müll. in G.C.Oeder & auct. suc. (eds.)
Add+ Orchis Orchis krylovii
Add+ Orchis Orchis serotina 1901 (Hausskn. ex M.Schulze) A.F.Schwarz
Add+ Orchis Orchis x krylovii 1933 Soó
Add+ Dactylorhiza Dact haematodes 2010 (Rchb.) G.H.Loos
Add+ Dactylorhiza Dact intermedia 1999 (Serg.) Kulikov & E.G.Philippov
Add+ Dactylorhiza Dact krylovii
Add+ Dactylorhiza Dact serotina 2010 (Hausskn. ex M.Schulze) G.H.Loos
Add+ Dactylorhiza Dact versicolor
Add+ Dactylorhiza Dact x krylovii 1962 (Soó) Soó
Add+ Dactylorhiza Dact x versicolor 1994 (J.C.Schmidt ex Lüscher) Gathoye & D.Tyteca
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