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Ophrys fusca LINK

Fam.: Orchidaceae / Orchid Family

Genus: Ophrys L.

In 1800 Johann Heinrich Friedrich Link described Ophrys fusca from a site near Lisboa. Today it is assumed, and Pierre Delforge neo-typified accordingly, that he meant the shown dark orchid which is frequent there, and not Ophrys forestieri (synonym: Ophrys lupercalis), which is less frequent near Lisboa, but wide-spread in almost the whole Mediterranean, and pollinated by Andrena nigroaenea.
Most probably Ophrys fusca is an endemism of Portugal. Its pollinating insect couldn't be determined yet.

Authors:
	LINK:	Johann Heinrich Friedrich Link (1767 - 1851), 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
	fusca:	sombre


Fig. 1: Ophrys fusca / Dull Ophrys P Algarve 26.3.2002


Fig. 2: Ophrys fusca / Dull Ophrys P Serra da Arrabida 27.3.2002


Fig. 3: Ophrys fusca / Dull Ophrys P Serra da Arrabida 27.3.2002


Fig. 4: Ophrys fusca / Dull Ophrys P Serra da Arrabida 27.3.2002


Fig. 5: Ophrys fusca / Dull Ophrys P Serra da Arrabida 27.3.2002


Fig. 6: Ophrys fusca / Dull Ophrys P Serra da Arrabida 3.4.2002 (Photo: Helmut Presser)


Fig. 7: Ophrys fusca / Dull Ophrys P Serra da Arrabida 3.4.2002 (Photo: Helmut Presser)


Fig. 8: Ophrys fusca / Dull Ophrys P Serra da Arrabida 3.4.2002 (Photo: Helmut Presser)


Fig. 9: Ophrys fusca / Dull Ophrys P Serra da Arrabida 3.4.2002 (Photo: Helmut Presser)


Fig. 10: Ophrys fusca / Dull Ophrys P Serra da Arrabida 3.4.2002 (Photo: Helmut Presser)

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