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		Ophrys phaidra PAULUS

Fam.: Orchidaceae / Orchid Family

Genus: Ophrys L.

Authors:
	PAULUS:	Hannes Franz Paulus (1943 - ), German biologist
	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
	phaidra:	phaidros = winsome

The description of this orchid, written by Prof. PAULUS has been issued in Jahresber. naturwiss. Vereins Wuppertal 60, 122 (2007). The orchid is wide-spread in the south of Crete. Before that the species had often been confused with the Late Thripti-Fusca Ophrys cressa, and this is also the case in books on Cretan orchids, as Prof Paulus mentioned at the orchid conference of Wuppertal (Germany) in November 2006.


Fig. 1: Ophrys phaidra / Cretan Dull Orchid Crete, Spili 24.4.2010 (Photo: Zissis Antonopoulos)


Fig. 2: Ophrys phaidra / Cretan Dull Orchid Crete, Spili 24.4.2010 (Photo: Zissis Antonopoulos)


Fig. 3: Ophrys phaidra / Cretan Dull Orchid Crete, Spili 24.4.2010 (Photo: Zissis Antonopoulos)


Fig. 4: Ophrys phaidra / Cretan Dull Orchid Crete, Spili 24.4.2010 (Photo: Zissis Antonopoulos)


Fig. 5: Ophrys phaidra / Cretan Dull Orchid Crete, Afrati 24.4.2001


Fig. 6: Ophrys phaidra / Cretan Dull Orchid Crete, Spili 5.4.2015


Fig. 7: Ophrys phaidra / Cretan Dull Orchid Crete, Spili 5.4.2015


Fig. 8: Ophrys phaidra / Cretan Dull Orchid Crete, Spili 5.4.2015


Fig. 9: Ophrys phaidra / Cretan Dull Orchid (?) Crete, Asteroussia 20.4.2001

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