Orchis patensDesf.

WFO wfo-0000259806 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC BY / CC BY-SA

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Orchis patens, photographed by Mourad Harzallah
fig. a Mourad Harzallah, CC BY 4.0 / 2022-04-22 / obs. 189911896
Orchis patens, photographed by Aissa Djamel Filali
fig. b Aissa Djamel Filali, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 68249919
Orchis patens, photographed by Aissa Djamel Filali
fig. c Aissa Djamel Filali, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 25158644
Orchis patens, photographed by Aissa Djamel Filali
fig. d Aissa Djamel Filali, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 25409758
Orchis patens, photographed by Mourad Harzallah
fig. e Mourad Harzallah, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 189912188
Orchis patens, photographed by Mourad Harzallah
fig. f Mourad Harzallah, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 189911872
Orchis patens, photographed by Karim Haddad
fig. g Karim Haddad, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 71686010
Orchis patens, photographed by Karim Haddad
fig. h Karim Haddad, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 71679062

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Native range 3 botanical countries

Regions where Orchis patens is native: Algeria, Tunisia, Italy AlgeriaTunisiaItaly
Native distribution of Orchis patens, 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
Algeria ALG AFRICA
Tunisia TUN
Italy ITA EUROPE

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 8 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.

  • Androrchis patens (Desf.) D.Tyteca & E.Klein
  • Barlia patens (Desf.) Szlach.
  • Orchis brevicornis Viv.
  • Orchis brevicornis var. panormitana (Tineo) Nyman
  • Orchis panormitana Tineo
  • Orchis patens subsp. brevicornis (Viv.) K.Richt.
  • Orchis patens var. brevicornis (Viv.) Rchb.f.
  • Orchis patens var. fontanesii Rchb.f.

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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