Description: Perennial herb, 2-5 tubercules,some the youngest with stalks others stalkess, ovoid. Stem 10-35 cm, with green, occasionaly with red spotted basal sheaths. Leaves 4-8, 4-19 × 0.9-1.5cm linear lanceolate, the upper reduced. Spike elongate, (1-)3-10-(15-) flowered; bracts equalling or slightly exceeding flowers, red to reddish green, usually with dark purple veins. Flowers 15-20 mm; perianth-segments subequal; outer linear-lanceolate, acute, free except at base, lilac; inner perianth segments, lateral ovate-lanceolate, greenish or reddish. Labellum about as long as the outer perianth segments, with 2 dark purple parallel ridges at base, narrower than hypochile, brownish-red, rarley white.

Poison: None Known

Distribution: Albania,  Algeria,  Corsica,  Crete,  Croatia,  Croatia,  East Aegean Islands,  France,  Gibraltar,  Italy,