Orchis purpurea Huds., 1762

Common names

• 🇬🇧 Lady Orchid
• 🇫🇷 Orchis pourpre, Grivollée, Orchis casque, Orchis brun

Taxonomy

• Kingdom: Plantae
• Clade: Tracheophytes
• Clade: Angiosperms
• Clade: Monocots
• Order: Asparagales
• Family: Orchidaceae
• Subfamily: Orchidoideae
• Tribe: Orchideae
• Subtribe: Orchidinae
• Genus: Orchis
• Species: Orchis purpurea

Presence

Present.

Conservation status

• Red List (Metropolitan France): LC Least Concern
• Red List (Europe): LC Least Concern

Notes

The following infraspecific taxa are accepted:

• O. purpurea subsp. caucasica (Regel) B.Baumann & H.Baumann, Lorenz & Peter, 2003;
• O. purpurea subsp. purpurea
  • var. lokiana (H.Baumann) Kreutz, 2024;
  • var. purpurea Huds., 1762, P.

Hybridizes with:

• O. anthropophora (L.) All., 1785 to produce O. × macra Lindl., 1835, P (het. syn. O. × meilsheimeri Rouy, 1912);
• O. anthropophora (L.) All., 1785 and O. militaris L., 1753 to produce O. × bispurium (G.Keller) H.Kretzschmar, Eccarius & H.Dietr., 2007, P (het. syn. O. × bispuria G.Keller, 1931);
• O. militaris L., 1753 to produce O. × hybrida Boenn. ex Rchb., 1830, P;
• O. simia Lam., 1779 to produce O. × angusticruris Franch., 1885, P.

Intergeneric hybridization is also possible with Anacamptis morio (L.) R.M.Bateman, Pridgeon & M.W.Chase, 1997 to produce × Anacamptorchis perretii (K.Richt.) B.Bock, 2012, P.

Photographs

Sources

• Kühn, R., Pedersen, H.Æ., & Cribb, P. (2020). Orchidées d’Europe et de Méditerranée (p. 178). Biotope.

• Rankou, H. (2011). Orchis purpurea (Europe assessment). The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species, 2011. https://www.iucnredlist.org/species/175986/7163217

• Tison, J.M., & de Foucault, B. (2014). Flora Gallica : Flore de France (p. 184). Biotope.