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Fam.:  Orchidaceae / Orchid Family

Synon.:  Ophrys apifera  HUDS.  var. friburgensis  FREYHOLD

Genus:  Ophrys  L.
 

Authors:
   HUDS.:  William Hudson (1730 - 1793), British pharmacist and botanist
   CHODAT:  Robert Hippolyte Chodat (1865 - 1934), Swiss botanist
   FREYHOLD:  Edmund von Freyhold (1845 - 1918), 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
   apifera:   bearing bees
   botteronii:   Louis-Aimé Botteron (1822 - 1888), discovered the orchid near Bienne (Switzerland)
   friburgensis:   from Freiburg
 

In the Ophrys chapter of the book 'Die Orchideen Deutschlands' (2005) Helmut BAUMANN demonstrated that Ophrys apifera var. friburgensis is an older and therefore priority name for the so far Ophrys apifera var. botteronii called Bee Orchid with dissolved drawing on the lip (and also sepal-like petals) shown here.
Up to then Ophrys apifera var. friburgensis was wrongly used for the Bee Orchid with normal lip but sepal-like big petals for long time, which LEWIS and KREUTZ meanwhile described as Ophrys apifera var. badensis in Jour.Eur.Orch 44 (2).

 

Ophrys apifera var. botteronii / Freiburg Bee Orchid, D  Heidelberg 11.6.1995
Fig. 1:  Ophrys apifera var. botteronii / Freiburg Bee Orchid
D Heidelberg 11.6.1995
Ophrys apifera var. botteronii / Freiburg Bee Orchid, D  Heidelberg 4.6.1993
Fig. 2:  Ophrys apifera var. botteronii / Freiburg Bee Orchid
D Heidelberg 4.6.1993
Ophrys apifera var. botteronii / Freiburg Bee Orchid, D  Heidelberg 4.6.1993
Fig. 3:  Ophrys apifera var. botteronii / Freiburg Bee Orchid
D Heidelberg 4.6.1993
Ophrys apifera var. botteronii / Freiburg Bee Orchid, D  Northern Eifel 10.6.2000
Fig. 4:  Ophrys apifera var. botteronii / Freiburg Bee Orchid
D Northern Eifel 10.6.2000
Ophrys apifera var. botteronii / Freiburg Bee Orchid, D  Northern Eifel 10.6.2000
Fig. 5:  Ophrys apifera var. botteronii / Freiburg Bee Orchid
D Northern Eifel 10.6.2000
Ophrys apifera var. botteronii / Freiburg Bee Orchid, D  Northern Eifel 10.6.2000
Fig. 6:  Ophrys apifera var. botteronii / Freiburg Bee Orchid
D Northern Eifel 10.6.2000
   
 


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