Epipactis atrorubens (Hoffm.) Besser

Distribution in adjacent reg.

Russia (European Russia, Ural, Siberia).

Specimens examined and literature records.

Tobol-Ishim: Kostanay Region: Uzynkol’skiy District: near Krasnye Borki, 12 Jul 1990, KSPI students 2189 (LE!, KSPI!).

Habitat and ecology.

Pine forests

Phenology.

Flowering in Jun-Jul; fruiting in Aug-Sep.

Conservation status.

Not protected. The species is very rare and we recommend to include it in the next edition of the Red Book of Kazakhstan.

Notes.

For the flora of Kazakhstan, the species was reported relatively recently by Perezhogin et al. (2015), based on the herbarium gathering mentioned above. Field studies are necessary to check whether the plant is still extant at that locality or not.