Red Helleborine

Taxobox
name = Red Helleborine

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image_width = 220px
regnum = Plantae
divisio = Magnoliophyta
classis = Liliopsida
ordo = Asparagales
familia = Orchidaceae
genus = "Cephalanthera"
species = "C. rubra"
binomial = "Cephalanthera rubra"
binomial_authority = (L.) Rich. 1817

Red Helleborine ("Cephalanthera rubra") is a plant in the orchid family. It is around 20-50cm high. It blooms between May and July.

tatus in Britain

Red Helleborine is a very rare plant in Britain. It is found only at the following sites:
* Workman's Wood, Sheepscombe, Gloucestershire
* Hawkley Warren, Hampshire
* Windsor Hill SSSI, a woodland just to the east of Princes Risborough in the Chilterns, Buckinghamshire

During the 19th and early 20th centuries, the species was recorded from single sites in Somerset, Sussex and Kent, and a second Hampshire site (in the upper Test Valley). The species was also recorded at additional Gloucestershire sites (including Stanley Wood, King's Stanley, now a Woodland Trust woodland), and persisted at some of these into the 1970s.

External links

* [http://www.rbgkew.org.uk/plants/orchids/red_helleborine.html Information about Red Helleborine from the Royal Botanic Garden, Kew]
* [http://linnaeus.nrm.se/flora/mono/orchida/cepha/cephrubv.jpgDen virtuella floran - Distribution]