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Ophrys araneola  RCHB.  s.l. Napoli

Fam.:  Orchidaceae / Orchid Family

Genus:  Ophrys  L.

In the coastal pine forest northwest of Naples, in which I found Ophrys tyrrhena, these small flowered Ophrys are growing, too, which are already in flower in middle of march. If the orchids wouldn't be much earlier in flower than Ophrys tommasinii, which has been described from the northern Croatia in April 1851, one could regard it as this species. As for Ophrys tommasinii the stigmatic head is rather wide. But according to HERTEL (Jour.Eur.Orch.34(3)) Ophrys tommasinii is not in flower before middle of april in Istria, so an identity seems improbable.

Authors:
	RCHB.:		Heinrich Gottlieb Ludwig Reichenbach (1793 - 1879), German 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
	araneola:		small spider

Fig. 1:  Ophrys araneola s.l. Napoli I Naples 16.3.2002

Fig. 2:  Ophrys araneola s.l. Napoli I Naples 16.3.2002

   

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