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Fam.:  Orchidaceae / Orchid Family

Synon.:  Ophrys hespera  DEVILLERS-TERSCH. & DEVILLERS

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
   sulcata:   crenate
   hespera:   from the West
 

Ophrys sulcata is wide spread in Spain, Southern and Western France as well as in Italy and former Yugoslavia, but usually not frequent. For an Ophrys fusca s.l. it is very late in flower.
To this species belongs also Ophrys hespera which has been described from Monte Argentario, Tuscany, Italy.

 

Ophrys sulcata / Furrowed Dull Orchid, F Corbières, Bugarach 14.5.1996
Fig. 1:  Ophrys sulcata / Furrowed Dull Orchid
F Corbières, Bugarach 14.5.1996
Ophrys sulcata / Furrowed Dull Orchid, F Corbières, Bugarach 8.5.2000
Fig. 2:  Ophrys sulcata / Furrowed Dull Orchid
F Corbières, Bugarach 8.5.2000
Ophrys sulcata / Furrowed Dull Orchid, F Corbières, Bugarach 29.4.2001
Fig. 3:  Ophrys sulcata / Furrowed Dull Orchid
F Corbières, Bugarach 29.4.2001
Ophrys sulcata / Furrowed Dull Orchid, F Blausasc 15.5.1999
Fig. 4:  Ophrys sulcata / Furrowed Dull Orchid
F Blausasc 15.5.1999
Ophrys sulcata / Furrowed Dull Orchid, F Blausasc 30.4.2001
Fig. 5:  Ophrys sulcata / Furrowed Dull Orchid
F Blausasc 30.4.2001
Ophrys sulcata / Furrowed Dull Orchid (hespera), I Monte Argentario 25.4.1998
Fig. 6:  Ophrys sulcata / Furrowed Dull Orchid (hespera)
I Monte Argentario 25.4.1998
Ophrys sulcata / Furrowed Dull Orchid (hespera), I Monte Argentario 25.4.1998
Fig. 7:  Ophrys sulcata / Furrowed Dull Orchid (hespera)
I Monte Argentario 25.4.1998
Ophrys sulcata / Furrowed Dull Orchid (hespera), I Monte Argentario 25.4.1998
Fig. 8:  Ophrys sulcata / Furrowed Dull Orchid (hespera)
I Monte Argentario 25.4.1998
Ophrys sulcata / Furrowed Dull Orchid (alt. 380 m, simultaneously O.bertolonii, O.holoserica lorenae), I Toscana, Monteverdi 14.5.2001
Fig. 9:  Ophrys sulcata / Furrowed Dull Orchid (alt. 380 m, simultaneously O.bertolonii, O.holoserica lorenae)
I Toscana, Monteverdi 14.5.2001
Ophrys sulcata / Furrowed Dull Orchid (alt. 380 m, simultaneously O.bertolonii, O.holoserica lorenae), I Toscana, Monteverdi 14.5.2001
Fig. 10:  Ophrys sulcata / Furrowed Dull Orchid (alt. 380 m, simultaneously O.bertolonii, O.holoserica lorenae)
I Toscana, Monteverdi 14.5.2001
Ophrys sulcata / Furrowed Dull Orchid (alt. 540 m, simultaneously O.bertolonii, O.holoserica lorenae), I San Gimignano 14.5.2001
Fig. 11:  Ophrys sulcata / Furrowed Dull Orchid (alt. 540 m, simultaneously O.bertolonii, O.holoserica lorenae)
I San Gimignano 14.5.2001
Ophrys sulcata / Furrowed Dull Orchid (alt. 540 m, simultaneously O.bertolonii, O.holoserica lorenae), I San Gimignano 14.5.2001
Fig. 12:  Ophrys sulcata / Furrowed Dull Orchid (alt. 540 m, simultaneously O.bertolonii, O.holoserica lorenae)
I San Gimignano 14.5.2001
Ophrys sulcata / Furrowed Dull Orchid (alt. 400 m, starting), I Umbria, Passignano sul Trasimeno 3.5.1997
Fig. 13:  Ophrys sulcata / Furrowed Dull Orchid (alt. 400 m, starting)
I Umbria, Passignano sul Trasimeno 3.5.1997
Ophrys sulcata / Furrowed Dull Orchid (alt. 400 m, starting), I Umbria, Passignano sul Trasimeno 3.5.1997
Fig. 14:  Ophrys sulcata / Furrowed Dull Orchid (alt. 400 m, starting)
I Umbria, Passignano sul Trasimeno 3.5.1997
Ophrys sulcata / Furrowed Dull Orchid, I Emilia Romagna, Rioveggio 15.5.2004
Fig. 15:  Ophrys sulcata / Furrowed Dull Orchid
I Emilia Romagna, Rioveggio 15.5.2004
Ophrys sulcata / Furrowed Dull Orchid (alt. ~600 m, simultaneously O.bertolonii, Or.italica, S.lingua), I Toscana, Monticello Amiata 1.5.1989
Fig. 16:  Ophrys sulcata / Furrowed Dull Orchid (alt. ~600 m, simultaneously O.bertolonii, Or.italica, S.lingua)
I Toscana, Monticello Amiata 1.5.1989
Ophrys sulcata / Furrowed Dull Orchid, I Ligur.Appennin, Bore 12.5.2001
Fig. 17:  Ophrys sulcata / Furrowed Dull Orchid
I Ligur.Appennin, Bore 12.5.2001
Ophrys sulcata / Furrowed Dull Orchid, I Ligur.Appennin, Bore 12.5.2001
Fig. 18:  Ophrys sulcata / Furrowed Dull Orchid
I Ligur.Appennin, Bore 12.5.2001
Ophrys sulcata / Furrowed Dull Orchid, I Promontorio del Gargano, Mattinata 11.4.1998
Fig. 19:  Ophrys sulcata / Furrowed Dull Orchid
I Promontorio del Gargano, Mattinata 11.4.1998
Ophrys sulcata / Furrowed Dull Orchid, I Promontorio del Gargano, Mattinata 11.4.1998
Fig. 20:  Ophrys sulcata / Furrowed Dull Orchid
I Promontorio del Gargano, Mattinata 11.4.1998
   
 


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