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Orchid Species: Orchis africana

Kew currently accepted name is Dactylorhiza elata

Orchis africana is an orchid species identified by (Klinge) A.W.Hill in 1938. Culture information and photos for this orchid are commonly detailed under the currently accepted name of Dactylorhiza elata.
Genus
Orchis (Orchis.)
Grex
africana
Parents
Species
Author
(Klinge) A.W.Hill
Year
1938
ORIGIN: A medium to giant sized, cool growing terrestrial orchid from Portugal, Spain, France, Corsica, Sardinia, Algeria, Morocco and Tunisia in fens, damp meadows, seapages and banks at elevations up to 2500 meters.

DESCRIPTION: A medium to giant sized, cool growing terrestrial orchid from Portugal, Spain, France, Corsica, Sardinia, Algeria, Morocco and Tunisia in fens, damp meadows, seapages and banks at elevations up to 2500 meters with a hollow stemcarrying 5 to 10, cauline, narrowly to broadly ovate-lanceolate, unspotted to rarely lightly spotted, erect leaves that are smaller in size and more bractlike as they near inflorescence that blooms in the late spring and early summer on a terminal, erect, 6.4 to 12.8 [16 to 32 cm] long, lax, or densely [30 to 120] flowered, racemose inflorescence that has leaf-like bracts.

-- 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 elata 1962 (Poir.) Soó
Add+ Dactylorhiza Dact occitanica 1995 Geniez, Melki, Pain & Soca
Add+ Gymnadenia Gym elata 1835 (Poir.) Lindl.
Add+ Dactylorhiza Dact elata ssp. sesquipedalis 1962 (Willd.) Soó
Add+ Dactylorhiza Dact brennensis 1988 (E.Nelson) D.Tyteca & Gathoye
Add+ Dactylorhiza Dact munbyana 1984 (Boiss. & Reut.) Holub
Add+ Dactylorhiza Dact vestita 1986 (Lag. & Rodr.) Aver.
Add+ Dactylorchis Dtylo munbyana 1947 (Boiss. & Reut.) Verm.
Add+ Dactylorchis Dtylo sesquipedalis 1947 (Willd.) Verm.
Add+ Orchidactyla Orc kabyliensis 1986 (G.Keller) Aver.
Add+ Orchis Orchis kabyliensis 1933 G.Keller
Add+ Orchis Orchis lusitanica 1841 Steud.
Add+ Orchis Orchis munbyana 1852 Boiss. & Reut.
Add+ Orchis Orchis rassautae 1962 (Alleiz.) Alleiz.
Add+ Orchis Orchis sesquipedalis 1805 Willd.
Add+ Orchis Orchis vestita 1803 Lag. & Rodr.
Add+ Dactylorchis Dtylo elata 1947 (Poir.) Verm.
Add+ Orchis Orchis elata 1789 Poir.
Add+ Dactylorhiza Dact sesquipedalis 1971 (Willd.) M.Laínz
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