Red Céphalanthère

The red céphalanthère ( Cephalanthera will rubra (L.) Rich. 1817) are a herbaceous Plante long-lived of the family of the Orchidacées.

Description

It is a spindly plant, with the tinted stems of red, with the narrow sheets, lancéolées, with many bractées. The flowers are pink sharp or purple, the sepals and of the same petals forms, pointed, the often isolated side sepals. The labelle door at its base of the yellow wrinkles. There is no spur.

Characteristics

reproductive bodies:

Standard of inflorescence: simple ear
distribution of the sexes: Standard hermaphrodite
of pollination: entomogame
Period of flowering: May at July

Standard seed

of fruit: capsule
Mode of dissemination: anémochore

Habitat and standard distribution

Habitat: underwoods herbaceous médioeuropéens, basophilic, mountain, of the adrets (wood of beeches, shaded rock slopes on calcareous substrate)
Surface of distribution: eurasiatic (enough rare in France, rather present in south-east). It is abundant on the calcareous lawn of Thillot (Meuse)

References

Tela Botanica

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