Gymnadenia conopsea




Family Orchidaceae
Subfamily Orchidoideae
Tribe Orchideae
Scientific name Gymnadenia conopsea (L.) R. Brown
Synonyms Dactylodenia comigera Averyanov; Gymnadenia alpina (Turczaninow ex Reichenbach f.) Czerep; Gymnadenia anisoloba Petermann; Gymnadenia comigera Reichenbach f.; Gymnadenia conopsea (L.) R. Brown forma albiflora Y. N. Lee; Gymnadenia conopsea (L.) R. Brown subsp. alpina (Reichenbach f.) Janchen; Gymnadenia conopsea (L.) R. Brown subsp. densiflora (Wahlenberg) Camus, Bergon & A. Camus; Gymnadenia conopsea (L.) R. Brown subsp. serotina (Schönherr) Dworschak; Gymnadenia conopsea (L.) R. Brown var. alpina Reichenbach f.; Gymnadenia conopsea (L.) R. Brown var. serotina Schönherr; Gymnadenia gracillima Schur; Gymnadenia ibukiensis Makino; Gymnadenia orchidis Lindley var. pantlingii Renz; Gymnadenia ornithis A. Richard; Gymnadenia pseudoconopsea Rouy; Gymnadenia sibirica Turczaninow ex Lindley; Gymnadenia splendida Dworschak; Gymnadenia splendida Dworschak subsp. odorata Dworschak; Gymnadenia transsilvanica Schur; Gymnadenia vernalis Dworschak; Gymnadenia wahlenbergii Reichenbach f.; Habenaria conopsea (L.) Bentham, non Reichenbach f.; Habenaria gymnadenia Druce; Orchigymnadenia comigera Ascherson & Graebner; Orchis conopsea L.; Orchis cornopica Miller; Orchis ornithis Nicolaus von Jacquin; Orchis peloria Foucault ex Poiret; Orchis pseudoconopea Grenier; Orchis pseudoconopsea P. E. Parmentier; Orchis setacea Gilibert; Orchis suaveolens Salisbury; Satyrium conopseum (L.) Wahlenberg
Common name (Japanese common name) tegata-chidori (テガタチドリ, 手形千鳥 [meaning: plover orchid with hand shaped roots])
(English common name) fragrant orchid, long-tails
Distribution (Japan) Hokkaido, Honshu (north of Kinki region)
(Other nations) Russia, Korea, China, Mongolia, Caucasus, Iran, Turkey, Europe
Habitat Alpne fields
Chromosomal number 2n=40, 80
Description Plants electing 30-60cm tall. Leaves 6-20cm long, 1-4cm wide. Flowers pink (or merely white), side sepals 4-5mm long, 2 divided lip 6-8mm long, Spurs ca. 15mm long, flowering in July to August. Terrestrial. Perennial plants.
Reference Gymnadenia conopsea (L.) R. Br.
Gymnadenia conopsea (Linne) R. Brown
Microwave assisted rapid and economical process for the preparation of substituted phenylaldehydes from trans and cis-phenylpropenes: a commercial utilisation of toxic cis-isomer (US Patent 6544390/2003)
Agent for hair growth (European Patent EP1915997/2008)



July 2008
at Utsukushigahara Highland
July 2008
at Utsukushigahara Highland
July 2008
at Utsukushigahara Highland



July 2008
at Utsukushigahara Highland
July 2008
at Utsukushigahara Highland
July 2008
at Utsukushigahara Highland