Epipactis purpurata Sm., syn.: Helleborine purpurata (Sm.) Druce, Epipactis latifolia subsp. purpurata (Sm.) K. Richt., Epipactis halacsyi Robatsch, Epipactis pollinensis B. Baumann & H. Baumann, Epipactis sessilifolia Peterm., Epipactis violacea (Dur.-Doq.) Boreau, Epipactis viridiflora (Hoffm.) Krock. and about 40 other names including lower taxaFamily: OrchidaceaeEN: Violet Helleborine, DE: Violette StendelwurzSlo.: purpurna movirnica Dat.: August 10. 2011Lat.: 45.72706 Long.: 14.38057 (WGS84)Code: Bot_542/2001_IMG6228Habitat: Mixed forest with little or no ground vegetation; growing under Picea abies; almost flat terrain; humid place in dark shade; partly protected from direct rain by tree canopies, elevation 570 m (1.870 feet); average precipitations ~ 1.800-2.00 mm/year, average temperature 7-9 deg C, Dinaric phytogeographical region. Substratum: soil.Place: South of the Cerknica intermittent lake, south of the local road from Village Otok to village Laze pri Gornjem Jezeru, Notranjska, Slovenia EC Comment: Epipactis purpurata is usually growing in dark forests having closed canopies and almost no ground vegetation. The stout plants grow from extensive rootstocks, often in clumps of stems. They may look quite variously and by no means always violet or purple as their names suggest. More often a general appearance is greenish with olive tint and eventually with some parts having purple-violet tint (Ref.:5). The species is to variable degree dependent on mycorrhizal relation with plants and may therefore contain different amount of chlorophyll. Hence their color may vary from green to completely pink or purple. The species is rare in Slovenia (Ref.:8) and also in most other countries (Ref.:4).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).Ref.:(1) Personal communication with Mr. Branko Dolinar,
www.orhideje.si(2) M.A. Fischer, W. Adler, K. Oswald, Exkursionsflora fr sterreich, Liechtenstein und Sdtirol, LO Landesmuseen, Linz, Austria (2005), p 1033.(3) A. Martini et all., Mala Flora Slovenije (Flora of Slovenia - Key) (in Slovenian), Tehnina Zaloba Slovenije (2007), p 767. (4)
www.aho-bayern.de/epipactis/ep_purp.html (accessed August 31. 2020)(5)
www.orchidsofbritainandeurope.co.uk/Epipactis%20purpurata... (accessed August 31. 2020)(6) H. Baumann, S. Kuenkele, R.Lorenz, Orchideen Europas, Ulmer (2006), p 97.(7) H. Kretzschmar, Die Orchideen Deutschlands und angrenzenden Lander, Quelle Meyer (2008), p 142.(8) B. Dolinar, Kukavievke v Sloveniji (Orchidaceae of Slovenia) (in Slovenian), Pipinova Knjiga (2015), p 81.
