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Fam.:  Orchidaceae / Orchid Family

Genus:  Dactylorhiza  NECK. ex NEVSKI
 

Authors:
   HÖPPNER:  Hans Höppner (1873 - 1946), German botanist
   SOÓ:  Károly Rezsö Soó von Bere (1903 - 1980), Austrian botanist
   NECK.:  Noël Martin Joseph de Necker (1729 - 1793), German physician and botanist of French descent
   NEVSKI:  Sergei Arsenjewitsch Newski (1908 - 1938), Russian botanist
 

Etymology:
   Dactylorhiza:   daktylos = finger, rhiza = root
   wirtgenii:   Philipp Wilhelm Wirtgen (1806 - 1870), German botanist (WIRTG.)
 

In Natural.belges 77(9):105 and 80(12):103 Belgian orchidophiles are affirming, that they re-found in some Dactylorhiza hybrid populations from alcaline moors near Langres (Dept. Haute Marne, France) exactly the attributes of the orchid, which was described as Orchis (today: Dactylorhiza) wirtgenii by HÖPPNER in 1916 from Rheinland near Cologne (Germany).

 

Dactylorhiza wirtgenii / Wirtgen's Marsh Orchid ? (?), F Haute Marne 16.6.2002
Fig. 1:  Dactylorhiza wirtgenii / Wirtgen's Marsh Orchid ? (?)
F Haute Marne 16.6.2002
Dactylorhiza wirtgenii / Wirtgen's Marsh Orchid ? (?), F Haute Marne 16.6.2002
Fig. 2:  Dactylorhiza wirtgenii / Wirtgen's Marsh Orchid ? (?)
F Haute Marne 16.6.2002
Dactylorhiza wirtgenii / Wirtgen's Marsh Orchid ? (?), F Haute Marne 16.6.2002
Fig. 3:  Dactylorhiza wirtgenii / Wirtgen's Marsh Orchid ? (?)
F Haute Marne 16.6.2002
   
 


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