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Fam.:  Orchidaceae / Orchid Family

Genus:  Ophrys  L.
 

Authors:
   RISSO:  Joseph Antoine Risso (1777 - 1845), Italian botanist from Nice (Southern France)
   A.SALIARIS:  Adamantios Saliaris (fl. 2010), Greek botanist
   SALIARIS:  Pantelis A. Saliaris, botanist from Greek island of Chios
   A.ALIBERTIS:  Antonis Alibertis (1943 - ), orchid specialist from Crete (Greece)
   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
   bilunulata:   two half-moons
   sancti-isidorii:   according to the martyr Saint Isidore from the Greek island of Chios
 

These East-Aegean plants are pollinated by Andrena flavipes as the Western-Mediterranean Ophrys bilunulata and Ophrys punctulata which is distributed from Southern Croatia to South-Eastern Greece. H.F.PAULUS and M.HIRTH in Jour.Eur.Orch. 46 (2): 233ff (2014) are proposing to nominate all these orchids as subspecies of Ophrys bilunulata:
Ophrys bilunulata RISSO subsp. bilunulata
Ophrys bilunulata subsp. punctulata (RENZ) PAULUS
Ophrys bilunulata subsp. sancti-isidorii (A. SALIARIS, P. SALIARIS & A. ALIBERTIS) PAULUS

 

Ophrys bilunulata subsp. sancti-isidorii / Saint Isidore Bee Orchid, Rhodos,  Epta Piges 20.3.2005
Fig. 1:  Ophrys bilunulata subsp. sancti-isidorii / Saint Isidore Bee Orchid
Rhodos, Epta Piges 20.3.2005
Ophrys bilunulata subsp. sancti-isidorii / Saint Isidore Bee Orchid, Rhodos,  Epta Piges 20.3.2005
Fig. 2:  Ophrys bilunulata subsp. sancti-isidorii / Saint Isidore Bee Orchid
Rhodos, Epta Piges 20.3.2005
Ophrys bilunulata subsp. sancti-isidorii / Saint Isidore Bee Orchid, Rhodos,  Epta Piges 20.3.2005
Fig. 3:  Ophrys bilunulata subsp. sancti-isidorii / Saint Isidore Bee Orchid
Rhodos, Epta Piges 20.3.2005
Ophrys bilunulata subsp. sancti-isidorii / Saint Isidore Bee Orchid, Rhodos,  Laerma 24.3.2005
Fig. 4:  Ophrys bilunulata subsp. sancti-isidorii / Saint Isidore Bee Orchid
Rhodos, Laerma 24.3.2005
Ophrys bilunulata subsp. sancti-isidorii / Saint Isidore Bee Orchid, Rhodos,  Kattavia 25.3.2005
Fig. 5:  Ophrys bilunulata subsp. sancti-isidorii / Saint Isidore Bee Orchid
Rhodos, Kattavia 25.3.2005
Ophrys bilunulata subsp. sancti-isidorii / Saint Isidore Bee Orchid, Rhodos,  Kattavia 25.3.2005
Fig. 6:  Ophrys bilunulata subsp. sancti-isidorii / Saint Isidore Bee Orchid
Rhodos, Kattavia 25.3.2005
Ophrys bilunulata subsp. sancti-isidorii / Saint Isidore Bee Orchid, Lesbos,  Lambou Mili 16.4.2014
Fig. 7:  Ophrys bilunulata subsp. sancti-isidorii / Saint Isidore Bee Orchid
Lesbos, Lambou Mili 16.4.2014
   
 


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