Nederlands: Bokkenorchis
Español: Orquídea del lagarto - Orquídea hedionda - Orquídea látigo - Satirión barbado
Français: Orchis bouc - Satyre fétide - Bouquin - Orchis à odeur de bouc - Cornes de bouc
Deutsch: Bocks-Riemenzunge - Bocksorchis
Family: Orchidaceae - Orchid family
Flowering time: May-July
Height: 30-90cm
Altitude: to 1800m
Colour: pale grey-green, creamy, purple spots and streaks
Flower: borne in a long spike, many flowered (sometimes more than a hundred)
Leaves: dull green, unspotted, often partly withered by flowering time
Habitat: grassland, scrub, open woods, road verges, rocky areas, sand-dunes, dikes
Distribution: widespread in southern Europe, but often local in the north and west of its range
Notes: The flowers of the Lizard Orchid are rather foul-smelling. The sepals and petals form a small hood, the lip is very long, often spiralling, 30-50mm with 2 short arms near the top and a long central lobe notched at the tip. The spur is 7-12mm long and downward pointing. Himantoglossum hircinum on the Dutch Red List (very rare) and Belgium Red List (threatened) of vascular plants.
Related key words: Jardín botánico Hoya de Pedraza, Sierra Nevada, Sierra de Huétor, Granada, Sierra de Loja, Sierra de Alfacar, Sierra Harana, Sierra Elvira, Sierra de La Mora, Desfiladero del Río Cacín, Andalucía, Andalusia, Andalusië, Spain, Zeeuws-Vlaanderen, the Netherlands, Nederlandse Rode Lijst, Vlaamse Rode Lijst
