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Fam.:  Orchidaceae / Orchid Family

Synon.:  Ophrys dianica  M.R.LOWE, PIERA, M.B.CRESPO & J.E.ARNOLD

Genus:  Ophrys  L.
 

Authors:
   P.DELFORGE:  Pierre Delforge (1945 - ), Belgian orchid specialist
   M.R.LOWE:  Michael R. Lowe (1955 - ), English botanist
   PIERA:  Joan Piera i Olive (1952 - ), Spanish botanist
   M.B.CRESPO:  Manuel Benito Crespo (1962 - ), Spanish botanist
   J.E.ARNOLD:  José Enrique Arnold (fl. 2001), Spanish teacher and orchid specialist
   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
   lucentina:   from Alicante (Spain)
   dianica:   from the Dianic Mountains (Province of Alicante, Spain)
 

In 1999 DELFORGE described a rather small flowered Ophrys fusca s.l. from South-Eastern Spain newly as Ophrys lucentina. It is pollinated by Andrena vulpecula. Some months later LOWE, PIERA, and CRESPO assumed that DELFORGE had used heterogeneous material influenced by Ophrys forestieri for his description, and described the plants which are pollinated by Andrena vulpecula again as Ophrys dianica.

 

Ophrys lucentina / Alicante Orchid, E  Prov. Alicante, Xabia 24.3.2002
Fig. 1:  Ophrys lucentina / Alicante Orchid
E Prov. Alicante, Xabia 24.3.2002
Ophrys lucentina / Alicante Orchid, E  Prov. Alicante, Xabia 24.3.2002
Fig. 2:  Ophrys lucentina / Alicante Orchid
E Prov. Alicante, Xabia 24.3.2002
Ophrys lucentina / Alicante Orchid, E  Prov. Alicante, Xabia 24.3.2002
Fig. 3:  Ophrys lucentina / Alicante Orchid
E Prov. Alicante, Xabia 24.3.2002
Ophrys lucentina / Alicante Orchid, E  Prov. Alicante, Xabia 24.3.2002
Fig. 4:  Ophrys lucentina / Alicante Orchid
E Prov. Alicante, Xabia 24.3.2002
Ophrys lucentina / Alicante Orchid, E  Prov. Alicante, Xabia 27.3.2001
Fig. 5:  Ophrys lucentina / Alicante Orchid
E Prov. Alicante, Xabia 27.3.2001
Ophrys lucentina / Alicante Orchid, E  Prov. Alicante, Xabia 27.3.2001
Fig. 6:  Ophrys lucentina / Alicante Orchid
E Prov. Alicante, Xabia 27.3.2001
Ophrys lucentina / Alicante Orchid, E  Prov. Alicante, Puerto de la Albaida 30.3.2001
Fig. 7:  Ophrys lucentina / Alicante Orchid
E Prov. Alicante, Puerto de la Albaida 30.3.2001
Ophrys lucentina / Alicante Orchid, E  Prov. Alicante, Puerto de la Albaida 30.3.2001
Fig. 8:  Ophrys lucentina / Alicante Orchid
E Prov. Alicante, Puerto de la Albaida 30.3.2001
Ophrys lucentina / Alicante Orchid, E  Prov. Alicante, Puerto de la Albaida 30.3.2001
Fig. 9:  Ophrys lucentina / Alicante Orchid
E Prov. Alicante, Puerto de la Albaida 30.3.2001
Ophrys lucentina / Alicante Orchid, E  Prov. Alicante, Puerto de la Albaida 30.3.2001
Fig. 10:  Ophrys lucentina / Alicante Orchid
E Prov. Alicante, Puerto de la Albaida 30.3.2001
Ophrys lucentina / Alicante Orchid, E  Prov. Alicante, Coll de Rates 30.3.2001
Fig. 11:  Ophrys lucentina / Alicante Orchid
E Prov. Alicante, Coll de Rates 30.3.2001
Ophrys lucentina / Alicante Orchid, E  Prov. Alicante, Coll de Rates 30.3.2001
Fig. 12:  Ophrys lucentina / Alicante Orchid
E Prov. Alicante, Coll de Rates 30.3.2001
Ophrys lucentina / Alicante Orchid, E  Prov. Alicante, Coll de Rates 30.3.2001
Fig. 13:  Ophrys lucentina / Alicante Orchid
E Prov. Alicante, Coll de Rates 30.3.2001
   
 


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