Brutus de Marco Junius

The kind Epipactis is a kind of Orchidaceae terrestrial primarily eurasiatic. They are plants with rhizome, very pledged with the forests of deciduous trees. Plants of shade, they flower under wood in June - July.

Taxonomy

According to the classification suggested by Erich Klein in 2005:

  • Section Arthrochilium

    • Epipactis palustris (L.) Crantz
  • Section Cymbochilium
    • Epipactis veratrifolia
  • Section Epipactis
    • Sub-section Epipactis
      • Epipactis degenii (Greece)
      • Epipactis densifolia
      • Epipactis duriensis
      • Epipactis guegelii (Romania)
      • Epipactis helleborine (L.) Crantz (North Africa & Europe in China)
        • Epipactis helleborine subsp. latina
        • Epipactis helleborine subsp. neerlandica
        • Epipactis helleborine subsp. orbicularis (Syn. Epipactis helleborine subsp. distans )
        • Epipactis helleborine subsp. tremolsii
      • Epipactis heraclea
      • Epipactis lapidocampi (Austria)
      • Epipactis turcica (Aegean Islands and Turkey)
    • Sub-section Porphyreochromatae
      • Epipactis bythinica (Turkey)
      • Epipactis lusitanica (Portugal)
      • Epipactis meridionalis (Italy)
      • Epipactis pollinensis (Italy)
      • Epipactis pseudopurpurata (Slovakia)
      • Epipactis rechingeri (Iran)
      • Epipactis troodi (Cyprus, Turkey)
      • Epipactis purpurata
    • Sub-section Autogamepactis
      • Epipactis aspromontana (Italy)
      • Epipactis bugacensis (Hungary)
      • Epipactis campeadori (Spain)
      • Epipactis cretica (Crete)
      • Epipactis danubialis (Romania)
      • Epipactis dunensis (Great Britain)
      • Epipactis flaminia (Central Europe and Eastern Europe)
      • Epipactis futakii (Central Europe and Eastern Europe)
      • Epipactis greuteri (Greece)
      • Epipactis komoricensis (Central Europe and Eastern Europe)
      • Epipactis leptochila (Europe)
      • Epipactis muelleri (Central Europe and Western Europe)
      • Epipactis nauosaensis (Greece)
      • Epipactis neglecta
      • Epipactis nordeniorum (Austria)
      • Epipactis olympica (Greece)
      • Epipactis peitzii
      • Epipactis placentina (Swiss & Italy)
      • Epipactis pontica (Central Europe - Turkey)
      • Epipactis provincialis (France)
      • Epipactis rhodanensis (France - Austria)
      • Epipactis sancta
      • Epipactis schubertiorum (Italy)
      • Epipactis voethii
  • Section Ripariphilae
    • Epipactis albensis (Central Europe)
    • Epipactis confusa
    • Epipactis fageticola
    • Epipactis fibri
    • Epipactis gracilis
    • Epipactis mecsekensis (Hungary)
    • Epipactis moravica (Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary)
    • Epipactis persica (South-eastern of Europe - Pakistan)
    • Epipactis phyllanthes (North-western of Europe)
    • Epipactis will stellifera (Swiss)
    • Epipactis tallosii (Slovakia, Hungary)
  • Section Rhytidochilum
    • Epipactis atrorubens (Hoff.) Besser (North-western of Europe - the Caucasus)
    • Epipactis condensata (Cyprus - Lebanon - the Caucasus)
    • Epipactis kleinii (Southern of France - western North of Spain)
    • Epipactis microphylla (Southern of Europe - Iran)
    • Epipactis spiridonovii (Bulgaria)
    • Epipactis subclausa (Greece)
Some species were not placed yet:
  • Epipactis africana (Ethiopia - Malawi)
  • Epipactis atromarginata (Vietnam)
  • Epipactis flava (Laos, Thailand)
  • Epipactis gigantea Dougl. ex Hook. (West of Canada - North of Mexico)
  • Epipactis mairei (Nepal - China)
  • Epipactis magnibracteata (China)
  • Epipactis ohwii (Taiwan)
  • Epipactis tenii (China)
  • Epipactis thunbergii (Southern of Russia - Korea & Japan)
  • Epipactis ulugurica (Tanzania)

Principal characters

  • the sheets have marked veins, they embracing at the base and are distributed along the stem.
  • the flowers in rather loose bunches are reddish or greenish.
  • the labelle is divided into two parts, at the base, it contains nectar.

External bonds

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