Re: Orchids summer\autumn 2008

[olegKon]

This is my favourite Dactylorhiza

[Paul T]

I hope no-one minds a southerner posting in here.... it isn't yet spring 2008 for me. 

Just a couple of orchids that are flowering inside under lights at the moment.....

Restripia sanguinea 'Walter' is one of the Pleurothallids, the flower is about 2 inches from top to bottom.  Under the grow-lights it positively glows, but doesn't look quite the same out in normal sunlight.

Dryadella zebrina is another of the same family, but the flowers are maybe a cm or so in size, perhaps a bit larger.  To give you an idea the pot in the second pic is a 2 inch tube, so it is a tiny little gem.  I've wanted it for years, so was thrilled to finally be able to purchase a piece at our local Orchid Society meeting a couple of months ago.

Enjoy.

[Lesley Cox]

Those are really cute Paul, just the size I like them!

[Armin]

Super pics from everybody.

[Rafa]

Theses are Epipactis kleinii and Ophrys scolopax

[Joakim B]

Nice ones Rafa 
Are they flowering now? It is at higher altitude?
Thanks for showing
Joakim

[Rafa]

Yes, they are blooming now. Epipactis bloom in late spring and summer (almost all the species) here in Castilla León, but we found this O. scolopax at 1400m so this could explain it still flowering.

[Maggi Young]

I do not know this Epipactis kleinii but I do like the hairy stems and super  neat shape to the flowers.

[Maggi Young]

Please note a post on the "books" page about a book on Orchids of Huanglong.
Reply 119 :
 http://www.srgc.org.uk/smf/index.php?topic=248.105

[Magnar]

I got this plant as Orchis wardii, but to me it looks like a Dactylorhiza maculata. Can anybody please tell wether the name is correct or not.

[Hans A.]

Magnar, I think you are right...

about "Orchis" wardii I found this:

4. Galearis wardii (W. W. Smith) P. F. Hunt, Kew Bull. 26: 172. 1971.
ban chun hong men lan

Orchis wardii W. W. Smith, Notes Roy. Bot. Gard. Edinburgh 13: 215. 1921.

Plant 12–25 cm tall. Rhizome stout, fleshy. Stem stout, with 2 or 3 tubular sheaths at base, 2-foliate. Leaves elliptic to oblong-lanceolate, 7–15 × 2.5–4.5 cm, apex obtuse-rounded or mucronate, base gradually attenuate into a conduplicate sheath, thickly textured, green. Inflorescence stout, 3.5–8 cm, 2–3 mm in diam.; rachis up to 3 cm, 5- to more than 10-flowered; floral bracts lanceolate, basal ones up to 3.5 cm, much longer than the flowers, apex acuminate. Flowers relatively large, spreading, whitish-pink to purple, spotted with dark purple; ovary cylindrical, 10–12 mm including pedicel; sepals subequal in length, 8–9 × 3–3.5 mm, 3-veined, pinkish-purple, inner surfaces spotted with purple; dorsal sepal erect, narrowly ovate-lanceolate, apex obtuse; lateral sepals spreading horizontally or reflexed, falcate to narrowly ovate-lanceolate, apex slightly obtuse; petals erect, forming a hood with the dorsal sepal, ovate-lanceolate, ca. 7 × 2.5 mm, 3-veined, pinkish-purple spotted with deep purple; lip simple, spreading, broadly ovate to suborbicular, 8–9 × 8–9 mm, longer than the petals, apex obtuse-rounded, margin strongly erose and wrinkled, base contracted, spurred, pinkish-purple spotted with deep purple to purplish-black; spur pendulous, cylindrical, slightly curved forward, slender, 7–10 mm, almost as long as the ovary, apex obtuse. Fl. Jun-Jul, fr. Jul-Aug.

* Forests, alpine meadows; 2400–4500 m. W Sichuan, E Xizang, NW Yunnan.

Query: http://wiki.terrorchid.org/key:orchidoideae_china

[Hans A.]

...and here a picture of it: http://www.asianflora.com/Orchidaceae/Galearis-wardii.htm

[Magnar]

Thank you, Hans. I obviously have not got the right plant,, just like I thought.

[Rafa]

Dactylorhiza maculata blooming now in the forest.

[Magnar]

Dactylorhiza maculata blooming now in the forest.

Here too, abundatly.