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Fam.:  Orchidaceae / Orchid Family

Synon.:  Androrchis provincialis  (BALB.) D.TYTECA & E.KLEIN  var. rubra  (CHABERT) W.FOELSCHE & JAKELY

Genus:  Orchis  L.,  Androrchis  D.TYTECA & E.KLEIN
 

Authors:
   BALB.:  Giovanni-Battista Balbis (1765 - 1831), Italian politian and botanist
   CHABERT:  Alfred Charles Chabert (1836 - 1916), French botanist
   D.TYTECA:  Daniel Séraphin René Marie Tyteca (1950 - ), Belgian mathematician and orchid specialist
   E.KLEIN:  Erich Klein (1931 - 2016), Austrian mathematician and orchid specialist
   W.FOELSCHE:  Wolfram Foelsche (1933 - ), Austrian musician and botanist from Graz
   JAKELY:  Dietmar Jakely (1954 - ), Austrian illustrator and amateur orchid specialist
   L.:  Carl von Linné (Linnaeus, 1707 - 1777), Swedish naturalist who introduced the binary naming system for plants and animals
 

Etymology:
   Orchis:   testicle (Greek)
   provincialis:   from the Provence (France)
   rubra:   red
   Androrchis:   Male Orchis, i. e. the group of Orchis mascula
 

About a third of the orchids at the site have red parts in their blossoms, the others are pale yellow as usual for Orchis provincialis. It is not known, whether the red colour is available in the genes of Orchis provincialis, or wether the orchids are descendants of hybrids with Orchis langei, olbiensis or mascula. At least today none of these orchids of the mascula group is still available at the site. There are several sites like this in Northern Spain, and also in the island of Corsica.
Jean-Pierre AMARDEILH in L'Orchidophile 182 (2009) counts these forms to his newly described Orchis x navarrensis, the hybrid between Orchis langei and Orchis provincialis.

 

Orchis provincialis var. rubra / Provence Orchid, E  Navarra, Pamplona 2.5.2004
Fig. 1:  Orchis provincialis var. rubra / Provence Orchid
E Navarra, Pamplona 2.5.2004
Orchis provincialis var. rubra / Provence Orchid, E  Navarra, Pamplona 2.5.2004
Fig. 2:  Orchis provincialis var. rubra / Provence Orchid
E Navarra, Pamplona 2.5.2004
Orchis provincialis var. rubra / Provence Orchid, E  Navarra, Pamplona 2.5.2004
Fig. 3:  Orchis provincialis var. rubra / Provence Orchid
E Navarra, Pamplona 2.5.2004
Orchis provincialis var. rubra / Provence Orchid, E  Navarra, Pamplona 2.5.2004
Fig. 4:  Orchis provincialis var. rubra / Provence Orchid
E Navarra, Pamplona 2.5.2004
   
 


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