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Ophrys obaesa  LOJAC.

Fam.:  Orchidaceae / Orchid Family

Genus:  Ophrys  L.

Ophrys obaesa has a medium sized labellum with velvety purple pilosity and blue-grey speculum. Seen from the front you can see a saddle-like lacing at the labellum. A good criterion to distinguish Ophrys obaesa from the similar Ophrys caesiella are its relative long petales. Ophrys obaesa is often growing in dense groups. It is endemic to Sicily, but not rare. According to PAULUS and GACK in Jber.naturwiss.Ver.Wuppertal 43: 137 (Zon)Andrena flavipes is the pollinating bee, the same bee which is pollinating Ophrys bilunulata which is widely distributed in Southwest-Europe and Northern Africa, and to which also Ophrys caesiella in SE-Sicily is belonging.

Authors:
	LOJAC.:		Michele Lojacono Pojero (1853 - 1919), Italian botanist
	L.:		Carl von Linné (Linnaeus, 1707 - 1777), Swedish naturalist who introduced the binary naming system for plants and animals

Etymology:
	Ophrys:		Greek plant name, from ophrys = eyebrow
	obaesa:		swollen

Fig. 1:  Ophrys obaesa / Led-Colored Bee Orchid Sicily, Mineo 1.4.1998

Fig. 2:  Ophrys obaesa / Led-Colored Bee Orchid Sicily, S.Stefano Quisquina 13.4.1999

Fig. 3:  Ophrys obaesa / Led-Colored Bee Orchid Sicily, S.Stefano Quisquina 13.4.1999

Fig. 4:  Ophrys obaesa / Led-Colored Bee Orchid Sicily, Madonie 6.4.1998

Fig. 5:  Ophrys obaesa / Led-Colored Bee Orchid Sicily, Cammarata 29.4.1998

Fig. 6:  Ophrys obaesa / Led-Colored Bee Orchid Sicily, Cammarata 29.4.1998

Fig. 7:  Ophrys obaesa / Led-Colored Bee Orchid Sicily, S.Stefano Quisquina 13.4.1999

Fig. 8:  Ophrys obaesa / Led-Colored Bee Orchid Sicily, Prov. Ragusa 31.3.1998

Fig. 9:  Ophrys obaesa / Led-Colored Bee Orchid Sicily, Mineo 1.4.1998

Fig. 10:  Ophrys obaesa / Led-Colored Bee Orchid Sicily, S.Stefano Quisquina 13.4.1999

Fig. 11:  Ophrys obaesa / Led-Colored Bee Orchid (bottom side of lips) Sicily, S.Stefano Quisquina 13.4.1999

   

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