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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

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Dactylorhiza fuchsii
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Dactylorhiza fuchsii

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.