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		Ophrys persephonae PAULUS

Fam.: Orchidaceae / Orchid Family

Genus: Ophrys L.

Authors:
	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
	persephonae:	Persephone (Greek goddess)

As an endemism of Rhodes is Ophrys persephonae, which was described by Prof. Paulus in 2001 in Ber.Arbeitskrs.Heim.Orchid. 18 (1): 38-86. He calls it a plant of light woods, and this is usually the case, but at Epta Piges and Haraki I found it in open phrygana, too.


Fig. 1: Ophrys persephonae / Persephons's Bee Orchid Rhodos, Epta Piges 20.3.2005


Fig. 2: Ophrys persephonae / Persephons's Bee Orchid Rhodos, Epta Piges 20.3.2005


Fig. 3: Ophrys persephonae / Persephons's Bee Orchid Rhodos, Epta Piges 20.3.2005


Fig. 4: Ophrys persephonae / Persephons's Bee Orchid Rhodos, Epta Piges 20.3.2005


Fig. 5: Ophrys persephonae / Persephons's Bee Orchid Rhodos, Haraki 26.3.2005


Fig. 6: Ophrys persephonae / Persephons's Bee Orchid Rhodos, Haraki 26.3.2005


Fig. 7: Ophrys persephonae / Persephons's Bee Orchid Rhodos, Haraki 26.3.2005


Fig. 8: Ophrys persephonae / Persephons's Bee Orchid Rhodos, Laerma 24.3.2005


Fig. 9: Ophrys persephonae / Persephons's Bee Orchid (the left one) Rhodos, Apollona 24.3.2005

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