Gymnadenia stiriaca
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| Gymnadenia stiriaca | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Monocots |
| Order: | Asparagales |
| Family: | Orchidaceae |
| Subfamily: | Orchidoideae |
| Genus: | Gymnadenia |
| Species: | G. stiriaca |
| Binomial name | |
| Gymnadenia stiriaca (Rech.) Teppner & E. Klein, 1998 | |
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Gymandenia stiriaca, the Salzkammergut vanilla orchid, is a species of orchid endemic to Austria.[1]
Gymandenia stiriaca are comparatively robust and many-flowered compared to other species in the Nigritella sub-genus. Their flowers are two-colored, each single flower is dark pink to dark pink-purple in the center and has a gradient towards the petal and sepal tips, with light pink, cream or white tips. Also unlike several other Nigritella species all flower rows of the inflorescence have the same color (with no vertical gradient). Depending on altitude they bloom from June to mid July.[2]