Natural History Photographs


Orchidaceae
Authority:Jussieu 1789
Nederlands:Orchideeënfamilie
English:orchid family
Deutsch:Orchideengewächse
Norsk:Orkidéfamilien, marihandfamilien
Svenska:Orkidéer
Français:Orchidées
Español:orquídeas
Himantoglossum cf. caprinum
Authority:(M. Bieb.) Spreng. 1826
Synonyms:Orchis caprina 1819
Nederlands:geitenorchis, oosterse bokkenorchis
Deutsch:orientalische Riemenzunge, Ziegenriemenzunge
Français:orchis bouc de Turquie
Zvezdel (Kardzjali), Bulgaria; 27 June 2021.

The taxonomy of the genus Himantoglossum is complicated, and various taxa have been described which may be statistically separable, but which makes identifying individual plants a nightmare; see e.g. Bateman, Molnár & Sramkó, 2017. The identification of these plants as caprinum is based on the deeply divided middle lip of the labellum.