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ORIGIN: Found in Tunisia, Algeria, Morocco, Portugal, Spain, the Balearic Islands, France, Corsica, Sardinia, Sicily, Italy, Yugoslavia, Albania, the eastern Aegean Islands, Greece, Cyprus, Turkey, Bulgaria, Romania, Lebanon, Syria, Israel, Jordan and Iran in calcareous soils in dry grasslands, shrublands and open forests at elevations of sea-level to 1800 meters.
DESCRIPTION: Small to medium sized, cold growing erect terrestrial orchid with ovoid or globose tubers carrying a basal rosette of lanceolate to linear-lanceolate acute leaves that blooms in the late winter and spring on a 2 to 3 [5 to 7.5 cm] long, loosely 2 to 8 flowered, erect, angular, reddish towards the apex inflorescence with red tinted, lanceolate bracts carrying showy flowers.
FLOWER SIZE: 1 1/4 inch [2.75 cm]
-- information provided by Jay Pfahl, author of the
Internet Orchid Species Encyclopedia (IOSPE).