Траунштейнера

Family: Orchids. Named after the Austrian apothecary and botanist of the first half of the 19th century, Траунштейнера, who studied the plants of Tyrol.

The genus Траунштейнера includes 2 species occurring in Europe, the Caucasus and Asia Minor.

Plants 25-65 cm tall. Tubers solid, ovoid or oval. Stem with 2 membranous sheaths at the base, with 2-3 alternate leaves and 1-2 leaf-like sheaths. Leaves oblong-lanceolate, with a short apex and a closed sheath. Inflorescence 1.2-5 cm long and 2-3 cm wide, very dense, many-flowered, pyramidal at the beginning of flowering, later ovoid-globose. Bracts small, green. Sepals free, directed forward, not forming a hood, lanceolate, long-acuminate, at the tip blade-like expanded and thickened. Petals shorter than the sepals. Lip three-lobed; lateral lobes short; the median lobe longer, straight or bent. Spur short, blunt, more or less curved. Pollinia claviform, with viscidia, half hidden in separate pockets. Ovary sessile, slightly twisted.

Can be used for alpine rock gardens and flowering lawns.