Discovery ofDactylorhiza praetermissa×Gymnadenia densiflora(Orchidaceae) at Kenfig National Nature Reserve, Glamorgan, Wales

The hybrid orchid Dactylorhiza praetermissa (Druce) Soo (Southern Marsh-orchid)×Gymnadenia densiflora (Wahlenb.) A. Dietr. (Marsh Fragrant-orchid) is reported from Kenfig National Nature Reserve, Glamorgan, v.c. 41, a first record for Wales. It is described under the new binomial×Dactylodenia ettlingeriana M J Clark & L Lewis. References are made to a previous record of this hybrid from the fen at Greywell Pumping Station, N. Hants., v.c. 12, in 1981/2, and to another probable record from Southwick, S. Hants., v.c. 11, in 1931.