In 1978, the Slovenian botanist VLADO RAVNIK had described a pink Vanilla Orchid from the Kamnik-Savinja Alps as Nigritella lithopolitanica. When then on neighboring Austrian mountains e.g. Petzen, Hochobir, and Koralpe a large-flowered pink Nigritella was found, it was considered to be the species described by RAVNIK. Until 2018, the large-flowered pink Nigritella from the Karavanke Mountains was then named Nigritella lithopolitanica RAVNIK in any orchid literature, and when, for a time, Nigritella and Gymnadenia were lumped together, it was also recombined into Gymnadenia lithopolitanica (RAVNIK) TEPPNER & E.KLEIN. Only in 2018 on the occasion of the exploration of a rich orchid area on the south side of the Košuta (Slovenia) WOLFRAM FOELSCHE, ROLAND WÜEST, EDITH MERZ, as well as the couple MARTINE and OLIVIER GERBAUD in their article 'Nigritella lithopolitanica und Nigritella karawankarum spec. nov., das Steineralpen-Kohlröschen und das neue Karawanken-Kohlröschen' in Ber. Arbeitskrs. Heim. Orchid. 35 (1): 47 - 121 were stating that RAVNIK's Nigritella lithopolitanica was a small-flowered Nigritella, and therefore it could not be identical with the large-flowered pink one from the Karavanke. Since this orchid was now nameless, they described it as Nigritella karawankarum according to plants from Hochobir. The real Nigritella lithopolitanica is a small-flowered species that has been found in several places of the Slovenian Alps in between, not only at RAVNIK's locus classicus, Krvavec Alpe in Kamnik-Savinja Alps near Gorenjska, but e.g. also on the south side of the Košuta.