Neotinea-tridentata_34

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Neotinea tridentata ssp. tridentata (Scop.) Bateman, Pridgeon & Chase, syn.: Orchis tridentata Scop., Orchis variegata All.Toothed Orchid, CR: trozubi kaun, DE: Dreizhniges KnabenkrautSlo.: trizoba kukavicaDat.: April 28. 2015Lat.: 45.09753 Long.: 14.48152Code: Bot_871/2015_DSC_6139Habitat: Low, light predominantly deciduous wood with many bushes and small open patches of stony grassland, Quercus sp, Fraxinus ornus, Carpinus orientalis, Acer monspessulanus, Juniperus sp., Rubus sp, etc. present; flat calcareous terrain, partly sunny and dry place, elevation 70 m (230 feet), average precipitations 1.000 - 1.200 mm/year, average temperature 13 - 15 deg C, submediterranean phytogeographical region. Substratum: soil.Place: West of village Poljice, north of the dirt road leading to sea shore, inland of island Krk, Adriatic Sea, Kvarner bay, Croatia EC. Comment: Growing in scattered groups of several plants. Most plants still in leaves only or in in buds.Protected according to 'Uredba o zavarovanih prostoiveih rastlinskih vrstah'Url. RS, t. 46/2004 (Regulation of protection of wild growing plants, Official Gazette of Republic Slovenia, No.:46/2004). Enlisted in the Slovene Red List of rare and endangered species, marked by "V" representing a vulnerable species.Ref.:(1) R. Domac, Flora Hrvatske, Prirunik za odreivanje bilja, kolskaKnjiga, Zgreb, II. izdanje (2002), p 462.(2) H. Baumann, S. Kuenkele, R. Lorenz, Orchideen Europas, Ulmer (2006), p 244. (3) O. Sebald, S. Seybold, G. Philippi, A. Werz, Die Farn- und Bltenpflanzen Baden-Wrttembergs, Ulmer, Band 8. (1998), p 255.(4) H. Kretzschmar, Die Orchideen Deutschlands und angrenzender Lander, Quelle & Meyer (2008), p 168.(5) B. Dolinar, Kukavievke v Sloveniji (Orchids in Slovenia), Pipinova Knjiga (2015), p 109.