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Herbarium specimen: Dactylorhiza maculata subsp. ericetorum

Taxon:Orchidaceae: Dactylorhiza maculata subsp. ericetorum (E.F. Linton) P.F. Hunt & Summerh.
Filed in taxon folder:Orchidaceae: Dactylorhiza maculata subsp. ericetorum (E.F. Linton) P.F. Hunt & Summerh.
Collected by:Mr Edward Charles Wallace
Collection date:12/6/1926
Locality:Great Britain, VC17 Surrey, Leith Hill, TQ14, Bog, Broadmoor Valley
ex herb:Mr Job Edward Lousley
Mr Edward Charles Wallace
exchanged:Watson Botanical Exchange Club
Institution:South London Botanical Institute (SLBI)
Image:Dactylorhiza maculata subsp. ericetorum herbarium specimen from Leith Hill, VC17 Surrey in 1926 by Mr Edward Charles Wallace.
fruits/flowers:mature flowers
notes:This species is abundant in wet pet bogs in Surrey and Sussex.I have rarely seen two specimens in which the lip-markings or the colouring were identical. In a field ner it grows with O maculata L. and Listera ovata on acid soil. Nearly every blossom had a little fly in the top of the spur, but when the flies were removed they were dead, or else intoxicated with nectar. -E.C.Wallace

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Documented by dawn nelson on 5th January 2012.

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