Authors: Sol.  

Botanical Description

ex Verm.) Soo (syn. Orchis maderensis). Mature plant 40-60cm or more in height. Leaves eight to fourteen, usually lanceolate to ovate. Raceme up to 13cm long. Flowers bright rose-purple, to 2.5cm in diameter, the labellum wider than long, shallowly three-lobed, spur narrowly conical. Madeira, in moist woods and grassland at 750-900m. Darker and paler-hued and white-flowered forms occur in the wild.

Plant Portrait: Dactylorhiza foliosa

a, D. elata; b, D. foliosa; c, D. fuchsii; d, D. iberica; e, D. maculata; f, D. sambucina; g, D. sulphurea; h, D. traunsteineri;