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Fam.:  Orchidaceae / Orchid Family

Synon.:  Ophrys lutea  (GOUAN) CAV.  subsp. minor  (TOD.) O.DANESCH & E.DANESCH,  Ophrys galilaea  H.FLEISCHM. & BORNM.

Genus:  Ophrys  L.
 

Authors:
   TINEO:  Vincenzo Tineo (1791 - 1856), Sicilian botanist
   GOUAN:  Antoine Gouan (1733 - 1821), French botanist
   CAV.:  Antonio José Cavanilles (1745 - 1804), Spanish naturalist
   TOD.:  Agostino Todaro, Baron della Galia (1818 - 1892), Sicilian politician and botanist
   O.DANESCH:  Othmar Danesch (1919 - 2014), Austrian architect and botanist
   E.DANESCH:  Edeltraud Danesch (1922 - 1996), Austrian writer, wife of Othmar Danesch
   H.FLEISCHM.:  Hans Fleischmann (1875 - 1928), German orchid specialist
   BORNM.:  Friedrich Nicolaus Joseph Bornmüller (1862 - 1948), German 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
   sicula:   from Sicily
   lutea:   yellow
   minor:   small
   galilaea:   from Galilea
 

The small yellow orchid Ophrys sicula is widely distributed in the Mediterranean. Not only the lip is smaller than that of Ophrys lutea and Ophrys phryganae, but also the position of the lip is different. Ophrys sicula holds it more or less horizontally, while it is more or less steeply bowed down at the other species, which seems to be an adaption for the particular pollinating bee.
Plants from Promontorio del Gargano (Italy) with brown over-colored lips have been separated as an own species Ophrys pseudomelena by TURCO, MEDAGLI & D'EMERICO in GIROS Notizie 50, 8-9 (2012), which seems to be exaggerated from my point of view.

 

Ophrys sicula / Sicilian Bee Orchid, Crete,  Knossos 3.4.1990
Fig. 1:  Ophrys sicula / Sicilian Bee Orchid
Crete, Knossos 3.4.1990
Ophrys sicula / Sicilian Bee Orchid, Crete,  Rodovani 21.4.2001
Fig. 2:  Ophrys sicula / Sicilian Bee Orchid
Crete, Rodovani 21.4.2001
Ophrys sicula / Sicilian Bee Orchid, Crete,  Phaistos 11.2.2002
Fig. 3:  Ophrys sicula / Sicilian Bee Orchid
Crete, Phaistos 11.2.2002
Ophrys sicula / Sicilian Bee Orchid, Crete,  Arhanes, Jouhtas 30.3.2015
Fig. 4:  Ophrys sicula / Sicilian Bee Orchid
Crete, Arhanes, Jouhtas 30.3.2015
Ophrys sicula / Sicilian Bee Orchid, Crete,  Arhanes, Jouhtas 30.3.2015
Fig. 5:  Ophrys sicula / Sicilian Bee Orchid
Crete, Arhanes, Jouhtas 30.3.2015
Ophrys sicula / Sicilian Bee Orchid, Crete,  Arhanes, Jouhtas 30.3.2015
Fig. 6:  Ophrys sicula / Sicilian Bee Orchid
Crete, Arhanes, Jouhtas 30.3.2015
Ophrys sicula / Sicilian Bee Orchid, Crete,  Armeni 7.4.2015
Fig. 7:  Ophrys sicula / Sicilian Bee Orchid
Crete, Armeni 7.4.2015
Ophrys sicula / Sicilian Bee Orchid, Crete,  Armeni 7.4.2015
Fig. 8:  Ophrys sicula / Sicilian Bee Orchid
Crete, Armeni 7.4.2015
Ophrys sicula / Sicilian Bee Orchid, Rhodos,  Lindos 22.3.2005
Fig. 9:  Ophrys sicula / Sicilian Bee Orchid
Rhodos, Lindos 22.3.2005
Ophrys sicula / Sicilian Bee Orchid, Rhodos,  Lardos 19.3.2005
Fig. 10:  Ophrys sicula / Sicilian Bee Orchid
Rhodos, Lardos 19.3.2005
Ophrys sicula / Sicilian Bee Orchid, Rhodos,  Lardos 3.4.2019
Fig. 11:  Ophrys sicula / Sicilian Bee Orchid
Rhodos, Lardos 3.4.2019
Ophrys sicula / Sicilian Bee Orchid, Rhodos,  Archangelos 17.3.2023
Fig. 12:  Ophrys sicula / Sicilian Bee Orchid
Rhodos, Archangelos 17.3.2023
Ophrys sicula / Sicilian Bee Orchid, Samos,  Mytilini 10.4.2017
Fig. 13:  Ophrys sicula / Sicilian Bee Orchid
Samos, Mytilini 10.4.2017
Ophrys sicula / Sicilian Bee Orchid, Samos,  Potami 15.4.2017
Fig. 14:  Ophrys sicula / Sicilian Bee Orchid
Samos, Potami 15.4.2017
Ophrys sicula / Sicilian Bee Orchid, Lesbos,  Plomari 20.4.2014
Fig. 15:  Ophrys sicula / Sicilian Bee Orchid
Lesbos, Plomari 20.4.2014
Ophrys sicula / Sicilian Bee Orchid, GR  Hymettos 2.4.2013
Fig. 16:  Ophrys sicula / Sicilian Bee Orchid
GR Hymettos 2.4.2013
Ophrys sicula / Sicilian Bee Orchid, GR  Peloponnes, Figalia 29.3.2013
Fig. 17:  Ophrys sicula / Sicilian Bee Orchid
GR Peloponnes, Figalia 29.3.2013
Ophrys sicula / Sicilian Bee Orchid, Lesbos,  Agiasos 15.4.2014
Fig. 18:  Ophrys sicula / Sicilian Bee Orchid
Lesbos, Agiasos 15.4.2014
Ophrys sicula / Sicilian Bee Orchid, Sicily,  Niscemi 2.4.1998
Fig. 19:  Ophrys sicula / Sicilian Bee Orchid
Sicily, Niscemi 2.4.1998
Ophrys sicula / Sicilian Bee Orchid, Sicily,  Niscemi 11.3.2002
Fig. 20:  Ophrys sicula / Sicilian Bee Orchid
Sicily, Niscemi 11.3.2002
Ophrys sicula / Sicilian Bee Orchid, Sicily,  Niscemi 14.3.2002
Fig. 21:  Ophrys sicula / Sicilian Bee Orchid
Sicily, Niscemi 14.3.2002
Ophrys sicula / Sicilian Bee Orchid (over-colored: pseudomelena), I  Promontorio del Gargano, Mattinata 9.4.1998
Fig. 22:  Ophrys sicula / Sicilian Bee Orchid (over-colored: pseudomelena)
I Promontorio del Gargano, Mattinata 9.4.1998
Ophrys sicula / Sicilian Bee Orchid (over-colored: pseudomelena), I  Promontorio del Gargano, Mattinata 9.4.1998
Fig. 23:  Ophrys sicula / Sicilian Bee Orchid (over-colored: pseudomelena)
I Promontorio del Gargano, Mattinata 9.4.1998
Ophrys sicula / Sicilian Bee Orchid (over-colored: pseudomelena), I  Promontorio del Gargano, Mattinata 9.4.1998
Fig. 24:  Ophrys sicula / Sicilian Bee Orchid (over-colored: pseudomelena)
I Promontorio del Gargano, Mattinata 9.4.1998
Ophrys sicula / Sicilian Bee Orchid (over-colored: pseudomelena), I  Promontorio del Gargano, Mattinata 9.4.1998
Fig. 25:  Ophrys sicula / Sicilian Bee Orchid (over-colored: pseudomelena)
I Promontorio del Gargano, Mattinata 9.4.1998
   
 


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