Gymandenia miniata is a species of orchid native to the Eastern Alps and Carpathian Mountains.

[2] To distinguish G. miniata from the very similar and more common G. bicolor, the flower color alone can be tricky.

Wettstein published red Gymnadenias as G. rubra in 1889, which became the standard taxon name long used to refer to them.

When August von Hayek split the species (in a manuscript published posthumously in 1956),[3] he again used miniata for the flowers first described by Crantz but many authors kept using G. rubra.

In 2011 the International Association for Plant Taxonomy confirmed G. miniata as the current name with G. rubra as a synonym for it.