- Family:
- Orchidaceae Juss.
- Genus:
- Dactylorhiza Neck. ex Nevski
Dactylorhiza maculata (L.) Soó

[O-EM]
- Distribution
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Much of Europe, but absent from most of the southeast.
- Habitat
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Moorland, grassland and damp woods; mainly on acid soils.
- General Description
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Stem with 5-12 distant leaves. Leaves with or without dark spots; lower linear-lanceolate to ovate or oblong, acute to obtuse. Bracts mostly shorter than the flowers. Outer perianth-segments 7-11 mm. Middle lobe of labellum shorter than to as long as (rarely longer than) and much narrower than the lateral lobes. Spur 3-11 mm, cylindrical, shorter than to as long as ovary.
Native to:
Albania, Algeria, Altay, Austria, Baltic States, Belarus, Belgium, Bulgaria, Buryatiya, Central European Rus, Chita, Corse, Czechoslovakia, Denmark, East European Russia, Finland, France, Føroyar, Germany, Great Britain, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Irkutsk, Italy, Krasnoyarsk, Mongolia, Morocco, Netherlands, North European Russi, Northwest European R, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Sicilia, South European Russi, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey, Tuva, Ukraine, West Siberia, Xinjiang, Yakutskiya, Yugoslavia
Introduced into:
Ontario
- English
- Heath Spotted Orchid
Dactylorhiza maculata (L.) Soó appears in other Kew resources:
Date | Reference | Identified As | Barcode | Type Status | Has image? |
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Verdcourt, B. [4667B], France | 32386.000 | No | |||
Wood, J.J. [564], France | 36010.000 | No | |||
Milne-Redhead, E. [2349], Austria | 363.000 | No | |||
Milne-Redhead, E. [2373], Austria | 364.000 | No | |||
Sandeman, C. [1], France | 365.000 | No | |||
Sandwith, N.Y. [3822], France | 366.000 | No | |||
Sandwith, N.Y. [3841], France | 367.000 | No | |||
Hepper, F.N. [A.B.C.], France | 368.000 | No | |||
Hepper, F.N. [D.E.F.], France | 369.000 | No | |||
Hepper, F.N. [9], France | 370.000 | No | |||
Sandwith, N.Y. [5192], Spain | 371.000 | No | |||
Wood, J.J. [536], France | 44346.000 | No | |||
Collins, P.B. [82/004], Norway | 44496.000 | No | |||
Wood, J.J. [560], France | 45819.000 | No | |||
Wood, J.J. [527], France | 45885.000 | No | |||
Wood, J.J. [537], France | 45922.000 | No | |||
Wood, J.J. [530], France | 45925.000 | No | |||
Joseph, J. [350], Spain | 48822.000 | No | |||
Watson, J.M. [56], Italy | 506.000 | No | |||
Sweden | 50600.000 | No | |||
Fay [655a] | 70549.000 | No | |||
Fay [659] | 70395.000 | No | |||
Shipunov [79-1], USSR | 71042.000 | No | |||
Shipunov [80-1], USSR | 71048.000 | No | |||
Bateman [s.n.], United Kingdom | 71069.000 | No | |||
Shipunov [75-1], USSR | 71105.000 | No | |||
Chase [16918] | 71699.000 | No | |||
Chase [16914] | 71704.000 | No | |||
Chase [16849 a.b.c.] | 71707.000 | No | |||
Chase [16913] | 71714.000 | No | |||
Chase [16909] | 71718.000 | No | |||
Chase [16917] | 71723.000 | No | |||
Chase [16916] | 71724.000 | No | |||
Chase [16915] | 71725.000 | No | |||
Chase [16911] | 71726.000 | No | |||
Chase [16912] | 71728.000 | No | |||
Chase [16910] | 71730.000 | No | |||
Shipunov [39-1] | 71759.000 | No | |||
Shipunov [37-1] | 71761.000 | No | |||
Shipunov [40-1] | 71762.000 | No | |||
Shipunov [36-1] | 71764.000 | No | |||
Shipunov [33-1] | 71767.000 | No | |||
Shipunov [30-1] | 71770.000 | No | |||
Shipunov [23-1] | 71772.000 | No | |||
Shipunov | 71775.000 | No | |||
Shipunov | 71778.000 | No | |||
Shipunov | 71787.000 | No | |||
Shipunov | 71789.000 | No | |||
Shipunov | 71793.000 | No | |||
Bateman [782] | 72046.000 | No | |||
Chase [19426], Austria | 73024.000 | No | |||
s.coll. [s.n.], Switzerland | K000364178 | Yes | |||
76455.000 | No | ||||
Edgar, G.H. [1002], Great Britain | K000718732 | No | |||
Civeyrel et al [567], France | 78333.000 | No | |||
E.G. [4013], France | K000718390 | No | |||
Lang, A.F. [s.n.] | K000364177 | Yes |
First published in Nom. Nov. Gen. Dactylorhiza: 7 (1962)
Accepted by
- Castroviejo, S. & al. (eds.) (2005). Flora Iberica 21: 1-366. Real Jardín Botánico, CSIC, Madrid.
- Gorchakovskii, P.L. & al. (1994). Opredelitel' sosudistykkhrastenii srednego Urala: 1-524. Nauka, Moscow.
- Govaerts, R. (2003). World Checklist of Monocotyledons Database in ACCESS: 1-71827. The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
- Kühn, R., Pedersen, H.Æ. & Cribb, v (2019). Field Guide to the Orchids of Europe and the Mediterranean: 1-430. Kew Publishing, England.
- Vázquez Pardo, F.M. (2009). Revisión de la familia Orchidaceae en Extremadura (España) Folia Botanica Extremadurensis 3: 1-367.
Literature
Kew Backbone Distributions
- Gorchakovskii, P.L. & al. (1994). Opredelitel' sosudistykkhrastenii srednego Urala: 1-524. Nauka, Moscow.
- Petrova, A.S., Vladimirov, V. & Stoyanov, Y. (2009). Dactylorhiza maculata subsp. transsilvanica (Orchidaceae): new for the Bulgarian flora Phytologia Balcanica 15: 389-392.
- Wu, Z. & Hong, D. (eds.) (2009). Flora of China 25: 1-570. Missouri Botanical Garden Press, St. Louis.
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Herbarium Catalogue Specimens
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The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Selected Plant Families 2022. Published on the Internet at http://www.ipni.org and http://apps.kew.org/wcsp/
© Copyright 2017 World Checklist of Selected Plant Families. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0
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Kew Living Collection Database
Common Names from Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew Living Collection https://www.kew.org/
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Kew Names and Taxonomic Backbone
The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Selected Plant Families 2022. Published on the Internet at http://www.ipni.org and http://apps.kew.org/wcsp/
© Copyright 2017 International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Selected Plant Families. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0
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