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Fam.:  Orchidaceae / Orchid Family

Genus:  Ophrys  L.
 

Authors:
   DEVILLERS-TERSCH.:  Jean Devillers-Terschuren (1955 - ), Canadian orchid specialist in Belgium
   DEVILLERS:  Pierre Devillers (1938 - ), French orchid specialist in Belgium
   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
   delforgei:   Pierre Delforge (1945 - ), Belgian orchid specialist (P. DELFORGE)
 

In 1999 in Natural. belges 80 (Orchid. 12): 179-229, 276 Pierre Delforge had assigned the old name Ophrys forestieri to the species with the smallest flowers of the Ophrys fusca complex in France. After extensive studies of herbariums Devillers and Devillers-Terschuren revised this in 2006 in Natural. belges 87 (Orchid. 19): 36-62, and recombined the species to the new name Ophrys delforgei. The name Ophrys forestieri turned out as the name of the early flowering species with bigger lip, which grows in big parts of the Mediterranean, is pollinated by Andrena nigroaenea, and since 1994 had been called Ophrys lupercalis.

 

Ophrys delforgei / Delforge's Ophrys, F  Martigues 11.3.2001
Fig. 1:  Ophrys delforgei / Delforge's Ophrys
F Martigues 11.3.2001
Ophrys delforgei / Delforge's Ophrys, F  Martigues 11.3.2001
Fig. 2:  Ophrys delforgei / Delforge's Ophrys
F Martigues 11.3.2001
Ophrys delforgei / Delforge's Ophrys, F  Martigues 11.3.2001
Fig. 3:  Ophrys delforgei / Delforge's Ophrys
F Martigues 11.3.2001
Ophrys delforgei / Delforge's Ophrys, F  Martigues 11.3.2001
Fig. 4:  Ophrys delforgei / Delforge's Ophrys
F Martigues 11.3.2001
Ophrys delforgei / Delforge's Ophrys, F  Martigues 11.3.2001
Fig. 5:  Ophrys delforgei / Delforge's Ophrys
F Martigues 11.3.2001
Ophrys delforgei / Delforge's Ophrys, F  Martigues 11.3.2001
Fig. 6:  Ophrys delforgei / Delforge's Ophrys
F Martigues 11.3.2001
Ophrys delforgei / Delforge's Ophrys, F  Dept. Bouches-du-Rhone, Pelissanne 25.3.2001
Fig. 7:  Ophrys delforgei / Delforge's Ophrys
F Dept. Bouches-du-Rhone, Pelissanne 25.3.2001
Ophrys delforgei / Delforge's Ophrys, F  Dept. Bouches-du-Rhone, Pelissanne 25.3.2001
Fig. 8:  Ophrys delforgei / Delforge's Ophrys
F Dept. Bouches-du-Rhone, Pelissanne 25.3.2001
Ophrys delforgei / Delforge's Ophrys, F  Dept. Bouches-du-Rhone, Istres 13.4.2001
Fig. 9:  Ophrys delforgei / Delforge's Ophrys
F Dept. Bouches-du-Rhone, Istres 13.4.2001
   
 


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