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Fam.:  Orchidaceae / Orchid Family

Genus:  Ophrys  L.
 

Authors:
   RCHB.F.:  Heinrich Gustav Reichenbach (1823 - 1889), German botanist
   HAUSSKN.:  Heinrich Carl Haussknecht (1838 - 1903), German pharmacist and 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
   subfusca:   similar to Ophrys fusca
 

In Jour.Eur.Orch. 42 (3) LOWE splits the plants up to now called Ophrys bilunulata in Ophrys bilunulata from French Provence and Italy, as well as in Ophrys subfusca, which he sees not only in Northern Africa, but to which he also assigns the French plants from Languedoc-Roussillon as well as the Spanisch and Portuguese plants. Also the Soutrhwest-Sicilian and Maltese Ophrys caesiella are counted under Ophrys subfusca by LOWE.

 

Ophrys subfusca / Smaller-Flowered Dull Bee Orchid, E  Antequera 24.3.2002
Fig. 1:  Ophrys subfusca / Smaller-Flowered Dull Bee Orchid
E Antequera 24.3.2002
Ophrys subfusca / Smaller-Flowered Dull Bee Orchid, E  Prov. Alicante, Xabia 30.3.2001
Fig. 2:  Ophrys subfusca / Smaller-Flowered Dull Bee Orchid
E Prov. Alicante, Xabia 30.3.2001
Ophrys subfusca / Smaller-Flowered Dull Bee Orchid, F  Montagne de la Clape 26.3.2001
Fig. 3:  Ophrys subfusca / Smaller-Flowered Dull Bee Orchid
F Montagne de la Clape 26.3.2001
Ophrys subfusca / Smaller-Flowered Dull Bee Orchid, F  Montagne de la Clape 26.3.2001
Fig. 4:  Ophrys subfusca / Smaller-Flowered Dull Bee Orchid
F Montagne de la Clape 26.3.2001
Ophrys subfusca / Smaller-Flowered Dull Bee Orchid, F  Montagne de la Clape 10.3.2001
Fig. 5:  Ophrys subfusca / Smaller-Flowered Dull Bee Orchid
F Montagne de la Clape 10.3.2001
Ophrys subfusca / Smaller-Flowered Dull Bee Orchid (partial color variant), F  Montagne de la Clape 13.4.2001
Fig. 6:  Ophrys subfusca / Smaller-Flowered Dull Bee Orchid (partial color variant)
F Montagne de la Clape 13.4.2001
Ophrys subfusca / Smaller-Flowered Dull Bee Orchid, Majorca,  Port de Andratx 9.4.2012
Fig. 7:  Ophrys subfusca / Smaller-Flowered Dull Bee Orchid
Majorca, Port de Andratx 9.4.2012
Ophrys subfusca / Smaller-Flowered Dull Bee Orchid, Majorca,  Port de Andratx 9.4.2012
Fig. 8:  Ophrys subfusca / Smaller-Flowered Dull Bee Orchid
Majorca, Port de Andratx 9.4.2012
Ophrys subfusca / Smaller-Flowered Dull Bee Orchid, Majorca,  Port de Andratx 9.4.2012
Fig. 9:  Ophrys subfusca / Smaller-Flowered Dull Bee Orchid
Majorca, Port de Andratx 9.4.2012
Ophrys subfusca / Smaller-Flowered Dull Bee Orchid, Majorca,  Port de Andratx 9.4.2012
Fig. 10:  Ophrys subfusca / Smaller-Flowered Dull Bee Orchid
Majorca, Port de Andratx 9.4.2012
Ophrys subfusca / Smaller-Flowered Dull Bee Orchid, Majorca,  Port de Andratx 9.4.2012
Fig. 11:  Ophrys subfusca / Smaller-Flowered Dull Bee Orchid
Majorca, Port de Andratx 9.4.2012
Ophrys subfusca / Smaller-Flowered Dull Bee Orchid, Majorca,  Port de Andratx 9.4.2012
Fig. 12:  Ophrys subfusca / Smaller-Flowered Dull Bee Orchid
Majorca, Port de Andratx 9.4.2012
   
 


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