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Ophrys flammeola P.DELFORGE (2000) was described in Natural.Belges 81 (Orchid. 13): 256. The early flowering orchid had a medium sized to big labellum, which is convexely arched. The front part of the medium lobe is often ascended as at Ophrys lutea. Pollinating insect is Andrena florentina according to H.F.PAULUS 2020 in Jour.Eur.Orch 52 (2-4): 355ff, and it is the species which he and Mrs. C.GACK had provisionally called florentina-fusca in Jber.naturwiss.Ver.Wuppertal 43: 119-141 already in 1990.

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