Dactylorhiza fuchsii (Druce) Soó, 1962
🇬🇧 Common Spotted-orchid
🇫🇷 Dactylorhize de Fuchs, Orchis de Fuchs, Orchis de Meyer, Orchis des bois, Orchis tacheté des bois
Taxonomy
- Kingdom: Plantae
- Clade: Tracheophytes
- Clade: Angiosperms
- Clade: Monocots
- Order: Asparagales
- Family: Orchidaceae
- Subfamily: Orchidoideae
- Tribe: Orchideae
- Subtribe: Orchidinae
- Genus: Dactylorhiza
- Species: Dactylorhiza fuchsii
Presence
Present.
Conservation status
- Red List (Metropolitan France): LC Least Concern
- Red List (Europe): LC Least Concern
Notes
The following infraspecific taxa are accepted:
- D. fuchsii subsp. fuchsii
- var. fuchsii (Druce) Soó, 1962, P;
- var. maculatensis Lachmair, 2024;
- var. punicea (J.Essink, L.Essink & Kreutz) Kreutz, 2024;
- var. sacciferoides (Klinge) Landwehr, 1977;
- var. sooana (Borsos) Kreutz, 2024;
- D. fuchsii subsp. carpatica (Batoušek & Kreutz) Kreutz, 2004;
- D. fuchsii subsp. hebridensis (Wilmott) Soó, 1962;
- D. fuchsii subsp. okellyi (Druce) Soó, 1962;
- D. fuchsii subsp. psychrophila (Schltr.) Holub, 1964;
- D. fuchsii subsp. sudetica (Poech ex Rchb.f.) Verm., 1975.
Hybridizes with:
- D. incarnata subsp. cruenta (O.F.Müll.) P.D.Sell, 1967 to produce D. × kerneriorum nothosubsp. ampolai (Hautz.) Eccarius, 2016, P (hom. syn. D. × ampolai Hautz., 1972);
- D. incarnata subsp. incarnata (L.) Soó, 1962 to produce D. × kerneriorum nothosubsp. kerneriorum (Soó) Soó, 1962, P;
- D. incarnata subsp. ochroleuca (Wüstnei ex Boll) P.F.Hunt & Summerh., 1965 to produce D. × kerneriorum nothosubsp. lillsundica (Kreutz) Oddone, 2016;
- D. maculata (L.) Soó, 1962 to produce D. × transiens (Druce) Soó, 1962, P;
- D. majalis subsp. majalis (Rchb.) P.F.Hunt & Summerh., 1965 to produce D. × braunii nothosubsp. braunii (Halácsy) Borsos & Soó, 1962, P;
- D. majalis subsp. turfosa (F.Proch.) Kreutz, 2004 to produce D. × braunii nothosubsp. lilacina F.Proch., 1982;
- D. majalis subsp. brennensis (E.Nelson) D.Tyteca & M.Hedrèn, 2020 to produce D. × stagni-novi D.Tyteca & Gathoye, 1988, P;
- D. praetermissa (Druce) Soó, 1962 to produce D. × grandis (Druce) P.F.Hunt, 1971, P;
- D. traunsteinerioides (Pugsley) R.M.Bateman & Denholm, 2016 to produce D. × kelleriana (Cif. & Giacom.) Soó, 1962, P;
- D. viridis (L.) R.M.Bateman, Pridgeon & M.W.Chase, 1997 to produce D. × mixta (Asch. & Graebn.) B.Bock, 2012, P.
Intergeneric hybridization is also possible with:
- Gymnadenia borealis (Druce) R.M.Bateman, Pridgeon & M.W.Chase, 1997, to produce × Dactylodenia st-quintinii
- nothosubsp. st-quintinii (Godfery) Aver., 1986: subsp. fuchsii, P;
- nothosubsp. sourekii (F.Proch.) Eccarius, 2016: subsp. psychrophila;
- Gymnadenia conopsea (L.) R.Br., 1813 to produce × Dactylodenia heinzeliana (Reichardt) Garay & H.R.Sweet, 1969, P;
- Gymnadenia odoratissima (L.) Rich., 1818 to produce × Dactylodenia lawalreei P.Delforge & D.Tyteca, 1982, P.
Photographs


Sources
Kühn, R., Pedersen, H.Æ., & Cribb, P. (2020). Orchidées d’Europe et de Méditerranée (p. 144). Biotope.
Rankou, H. (2011). Dactylorhiza fuchsii (Europe assessment). The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species, 2011. https://www.iucnredlist.org/species/176037/7181293
Tison, J.M., & de Foucault, B. (2014). Flora Gallica : Flore de France (p. 166). Biotope.