Orchidaceae

Orchis quadripunctata

Orchis L. Orchis quadripunctata CYR. EX TEN. Ömür: Çok yıllık Yapı: ot Hayat formu: İlk çiçeklenme zamanı: 4 Son çiçeklenme zamanı: 5 Habitat: taşlı makiler Minimum yükseklik: 0 Maksimum yükseklik: 550 Endemik: - Element: D. Akdeniz Türkiye dağılımı: B. Anadolu Genel dağılımı: G. Avrupa, Kıbrıs Bulunduğu kareler:A1 C2 C3

O. quadripunctata Cyr. ex Ten., Fl. Nap. 1: Prodr. 53 (1811). Ic: Reichb. fil., Ic. Fl. Germ. 13/14: t. 156 (1851); Sunderm., Europ. Medit. Orchid, ed. 2:144, f. 7.19(1975). Map 99.   Plant (10-)20-30(-40) cm. Stem slender, slightly flexuous, with 2-4 linear leaves near base; lamina c. 8x1 cm, spotted or unspotted. Spike cylindrical, to 20-flowered. Bracts c. half as long as ovary. Flowers small, purple-violet to red, rarely white. Sepals spreading, ovate, obtuse. Labellum roundish in outline, c. 7 mm diam., with 2-4(-6) dark purple dots near spur entrance, 3-lobed; lateral lobes ± spreading crosswise, obliquely oblong, obtuse;middle lobe ± quadrate-oblong, truncate. Spur filiform, equalling the narrow, slightly curved ovary. Fl. 4-5. Stony macchie, s.l-550 m.   Type: [Italy] al Gargano in Puglia, al Polline in Calabria, Cyrillo (holo. NAP, destroyed).   Very local in W. Anatolia, Islands. A1(A) Balikesir: Marmara adasi, 230 m, E. Tuzlaci (ISTE 39258)! C2 Antalya: nr Kasch (Kaş) and Gjölbaschi (Yavi), 18 iv & 1 v 1882, Luschan; 8 km E. of Kaş, nr Ağulluköyü, 500m, Renz & Taub. 80.47! C2/3 Antalya: Finike to Kaş, c. 150 m, Guichard TUR/3/62! Is: Lesvos, 1 km W. of Ayiassos, 550 m, Edmondson & McClintock 2231!   S. Europe, Cyprus. E. Medit. element. Variable in the shape of the labellum, which can be deeply lobed to nearly entire. Three specimens from the Kaş-Finike region in C3 Antalya (Guichard TUR/9/62!) approach O. anatolica;the flowers are larger and the labellum is marked with several dots towards the base of the rectangular middle lobe. The possibility of hybridisation with O. anatolica cannot be ruled out.