Image of Orchis purpurea ssp. purpurea

Description:

Slo.: krlatnordea kukavica - syn.: Orchis fusca Jacq., Orchis maxima K. Koch - Habitat: light, mainly broad leaf wood; under a canopy of a large Quercus sp. (pubescens?) tree, local ground without much undergrowth; flat, calcareous ground, in deep shade; average precipitations 1.000 - 1.200 mm/year, average temperature 13 - 15 deg C, elevation 60 m (200 feet), submediterranean phytogeographical region. - Substratum: soil. - Comment: Growing in a large scattered group of more than ten plants, some very beautiful. - Protected according to 'Uredba o zavarovanih prostoiveih rastlinskih vrstah' Url. RS, t. 46/2004 (Regulation of protection of wild growing plants, Official Gazette of Republic Slovenia, No.:46/2004). Enlisted in the Slovene Red List of rare and endangered species, marked by 'V' representing a vulnerable species. - Ref.: (1) R. Domac, Flora Hrvatske, Prirunik za odreivanje bilja, kolska Knjiga, Zgreb, II. izdanje (2002), p 463. (2) H. Baumann, S. Kuenkele, R. Lorenz, Orchideen Europas, Ulmer (2006), p 244. (3) O. Sebald, S. Seybold, G. Philippi, A. Werz, Die Farn- und Bltenpflanzen Baden-Wrttembergs, Ulmer, Band 8. (1998), p 386. (4) H. Kretzschmar, Die Orchideen Deutschlands und angrenzender Lander, Quelle& Meyer (2008), p 214. (5) B. Dolinar, Kukavievke v Sloveniji (Orchids in Slovenia - in Slovene), Pipinova Knjiga (2015), p 153.