Platanthera-bifolia-ssp-bifolia_41

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Platanthera bifolia ssp. bifolia (L.) Rich., syn.: Orchis bifolia L.Lesser Butterfly-orchid, DE: Weie Waldhyazinthe, Zweiblttriges BreitklbchenSlo.: dvolistni vimenjakDat.: May 25. 2015Lat.: 46.40111 Long.: 13.70527Code: Bot_878/2015_DSC6825Habitat: grassland, pasture, locally flat terrain; alluvial, skeletal, calcareous ground; shallow soil layer, sunny, open place; exposed to direct rain; elevation 980 m (3.200 feet); average precipitations ~ 3.000 mm/year, average temperature 4-6 deg C, alpine phytogeographical region. Place: Zadnja Trenta valley, Zapodn place, right bank of dry riverbed of Soa, East Julian Alps, Posoje, Slovenia EC.Comment: A single plant found still in buds. It was growing among Primula farinosa and Convalaria majalis, which signifies quite humid ground in spite of pure calcareous alluvium. Fully open and sunny habitat is also to some extent unusual for Platanthera bifolia ssp. bifolia.Protected according to: Uredba o zavarovanih prostoiveih rastlinskih vrstah, poglavje A, Uradni list RS, t. 46/2004 (Regulation of protected wild plants, chapter A, Official Gazette of Republic Slovenia, no. 46/2004), (2004).According to Pravilnik o uvrstitvi ogroenih rastlinskih in ivalskih vrst v rdei seznam, Uradni list RS, t. 82/2002 (Regulation of enlisting of endangered plant and animal species onto Red List, Official Gazette of Republic Slovenia, no. 82/2002) (2002) enlisted in the Slovene Red List of rare and endangered species, marked by V representing a vulnerable species.Ref.:(1) H.Baumann, S. Kuenkele, R.Lorenz, Orchideen Europas, Ulmer (2006), p 259.(2) B.Dolinar, Kukavievke v Sloveniji (Orchidaceae of Slovenia) (in Slovenian), Pipinova Knjiga (2015), p 157.(3) B.Allan, P. Woods, S. Klark, Wild Orchids of Scotland, HMSO, Edinburgh (1996), p 82.(4) D. Aeschimann, K. Lauber, D.M. Moser, J.P. Theurillat, Flora Alpina, Vol. 2., Haupt (2004), p 1110.(5) H.Kretzschmar, Die Orchideen Deutschlands und angrenzenden Lander, Quelle Meyer (2008), p 226.