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		Ophrys gackiae P.DELFORGE

Fam.: Orchidaceae / Orchid Family

Genus: Ophrys L.

Authors:
	P.DELFORGE:	Pierre Delforge (1945 - ), Belgian orchid specialist
	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
	gackiae:	Claudia Gack, German biologist from Freiburg in Breisgau (GACK)

In Jber.naturwiss.Ver.Wuppertal 43 (1990): 134 PAULUS and GACK wrote about a wide spread Ophrys fusca s.l. with relative big lip, which is late in flower, i.e. usually not before april, and which they considered to be a Sicilian endemism. Unfortunately no photo of the taxon was published. Since then it was called by the provisional name 'sabulosa-fusca', which came from the pollinator, the solitary bee Andrena trimmerana (formerly A. sabulosa sensu WARNCKE). 2004 in Natural.belges 85 (Orchid. 17): 110-124 DELFORGE wrote a formal description of an Ophrys sabulosa, of which he thought it were PAULUS' sabulosa-fusca. In 2020 in Jour.Eur.Orch. 52 (2-4): 355ff H.F.PAULUS wrote that it was not his sabulosa-fusca, but that in reality DELFORGEs Ophrys gackiae also described in 2004 is PAULUS' sabulosa-fusca. Photos of Ophrys gackiae are shown below.


Fig. 1: Ophrys gackiae / Gack's Ophrys Sicily, Niscemi 14.3.2002


Fig. 2: Ophrys gackiae / Gack's Ophrys Sicily, Niscemi 14.3.2002


Fig. 3: Ophrys gackiae / Gack's Ophrys Sicily, Niscemi 31.3.1998


Fig. 4: Ophrys gackiae / Gack's Ophrys Sicily, Licata 14.3.2002


Fig. 5: Ophrys gackiae / Gack's Ophrys Sicily, Licata 14.3.2002

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