Conical orchid
Height: 5-30cm
Colour: White, Pink
Flowering: February to June
Soil type: Alkaline to slightly acidic

This is a fairly small orchid with all of the flowers tightly packed at the top of the stem. The easiest way to identify this from other orchis species within Iberia is the long pointed tips on the hood. The three sepals and two upper petals form a tight hood in a shade of very pale pink, almost white, flushed with green bearing dark veins. This hood has a fringe of curly tips. The lip is deeply lobed, pinky-white and normally covered with darker speckles (occasionally without these spots). The central lobe is slightly convex which separates this form from others in Europe. The outer lobes are narrower and slightly dished at the tips. A sort spur is angled downwards.

This orchid species can be found in full sun or partial shade in open garrigue, poor pastures and woodland clearings up to an altitude of 800m.

These images of orchids were taken in Southern Spain, many terrestrial species are widespread from the Iberian peninsular eastwards through the Mediterranean region.

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