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ORIGIN: Found in Portugal, Spain, the Balaeric Islands France Corsica, Sardinia, Sicily, Austria, Italy, Yugoslavia, Albania, Greece, the eastern Aegean Islands, Turkey, Libya, Algeria, Tunisia, Morocco and the Azores Islands in dry to wet grasslands, scrub or light pine, oak or chestnut forests at elevations of sea-level to 600 meters.
DESCRIPTION: Small to medium sized, cold to cool growing terrestrial orchid with 2 to 3 subterranean, ovoid to globose tubers giving rise to a stem carrying 5 to 8, lanceolate leaves that blooms on a terminal, erect, 8 [20 cm] long, laxly few to several [4 to 15] flowered inflorescence with large brown papery bracts that almost cover the showy flowers occurring in the spring.
FLOWER SIZE: 1 inch [2.5 cm]
-- information provided by Jay Pfahl, author of the
Internet Orchid Species Encyclopedia (IOSPE).