Dactylorhiza hatagirea(D.Don) Soó

WFO wfo-0000936626 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC BY / CC BY-SA

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 3 observations

This species has been photographed under an open licence only 3 times, so some figures below are different views of the same plant, taken on the same day, rather than different individuals. They are usually different parts of it: the leaf, the flower, the bark.

Dactylorhiza hatagirea, photographed by Dinesh Valke
fig. a Dinesh Valke, CC BY-SA 4.0 / 2012-08-02 / obs. 172488794
Dactylorhiza hatagirea, photographed by Dinesh Valke
fig. b Dinesh Valke, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 172488803
Dactylorhiza hatagirea, photographed by Dinesh Valke
fig. c Dinesh Valke, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 172488806
Dactylorhiza hatagirea, photographed by Pavel Kacl
fig. d Pavel Kacl, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 59290316
Dactylorhiza hatagirea, photographed by Pavel Kacl
fig. e Pavel Kacl, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 59292026
Dactylorhiza hatagirea, photographed by Siddarth Machado
fig. f Siddarth Machado, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 35024934
Dactylorhiza hatagirea, photographed by Siddarth Machado
fig. g Siddarth Machado, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 35024926
Dactylorhiza hatagirea, photographed by Siddarth Machado
fig. h Siddarth Machado, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 35024942

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The specimen a real sheet, in a real collection

Herbarium
The New York Botanical Garden
Accession
04055547
Filed as
Dactylorhiza hatagirea (D.Don) Soó
Det. by
not recorded on this sheet
Collected
J. F. C. Rock 1926-07
Origin
CN
The sheet
View the digitised specimen (CC BY 4.0)

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Native range 12 botanical countries

Regions where Dactylorhiza hatagirea is native: China North-Central, China South-Central, Inner Mongolia, Manchuria, Mongolia, Qinghai, Tibet, Xinjiang, East Himalaya, Nepal, Pakistan, West Himalaya China North-CentralChina South-CentralInner MongoliaManchuriaMongoliaQinghaiTibetXinjiangEast HimalayaNepalPakistanWest Himalaya
Native distribution of Dactylorhiza hatagirea, after Kew’s World Checklist of Vascular Plants. Introduced, extinct and doubtful records are excluded, so this is where the plant is from, not everywhere it now grows.
RegionTDWG codeContinent
China North-Central CHN ASIA-TEMPERATE
China South-Central CHC
Inner Mongolia CHI
Manchuria CHM
Mongolia MON
Qinghai CHQ
Tibet CHT
Xinjiang CHX
East Himalaya EHM ASIA-TROPICAL
Nepal NEP
Pakistan PAK
West Himalaya WHM

Region boundaries approximated from Natural Earth (public domain) and mapped to TDWG World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions (WGSRPD) level-3 botanical countries (Brummitt 2001). Indicative, not the official WGSRPD geometry.

Also published as 6 synonyms

A synonym is not an error. It is a record of botanists disagreeing, in print, about where this plant belongs. Each of these was somebody’s considered answer.

  • Dactylorhiza hatagirea var. doniana (Soó) Soó
  • Dactylorhiza hatagirea var. schlaginweitii (Soó) Soó
  • Orchis hatagirea D.Don
  • Orchis hatagirea var. doniana Soó
  • Orchis hatagirea var. schlaginweitii Soó
  • Orchis latifolia var. indica Lindl.

Sourcesevery claim on this page

  1. World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
  2. iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.
  3. Kew, World Checklist of Vascular Plants (WCVP v16). native distribution by TDWG level-3 botanical country, and life form. CC BY 3.0. Retrieved 2026-06-04.

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