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Fam.:  Orchidaceae / Orchid Family

Genus:  Ophrys  L.
 

Authors:
   DESF.:  René Louiche Desfontaines (1750 - 1833), French botanist
   SHIFMAN:  Asaf Shifman (1938 - ), Israeli 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
   umbilicata:   navel-like
   beerii:   from Kibbutz Beeri (NW Negev, Western Israel) and as memory on the author's deceased brother Beeri
 

Ophrys umbilicata subsp. beerii has not until 2011 been described by the Israeli botanist SHIFMAN in Jour.Eur.Orch. 43(2). It is early in flower and has a slightly taller lip than the nominal species, which had been described from one of the Greek Aegean islands.

 

Ophrys umbilicata subsp. beerii / Beeri Bee Orchid, Israel,  Western Israel 26.2.2017 (Photo: Helmut Presser)
Fig. 1:  Ophrys umbilicata subsp. beerii / Beeri Bee Orchid
Israel, Western Israel 26.2.2017 (Photo: Helmut Presser)
Ophrys umbilicata subsp. beerii / Beeri Bee Orchid, Israel,  Western Israel 26.2.2017 (Photo: Helmut Presser)
Fig. 2:  Ophrys umbilicata subsp. beerii / Beeri Bee Orchid
Israel, Western Israel 26.2.2017 (Photo: Helmut Presser)
Ophrys umbilicata subsp. beerii / Beeri Bee Orchid, Israel,  Western Israel 26.2.2017 (Photo: Helmut Presser)
Fig. 3:  Ophrys umbilicata subsp. beerii / Beeri Bee Orchid
Israel, Western Israel 26.2.2017 (Photo: Helmut Presser)
Ophrys umbilicata subsp. beerii / Beeri Bee Orchid, Israel,  Western Israel 26.2.2017 (Photo: Helmut Presser)
Fig. 4:  Ophrys umbilicata subsp. beerii / Beeri Bee Orchid
Israel, Western Israel 26.2.2017 (Photo: Helmut Presser)
Ophrys umbilicata subsp. beerii / Beeri Bee Orchid, Israel,  Western Israel 26.2.2017 (Photo: Helmut Presser)
Fig. 5:  Ophrys umbilicata subsp. beerii / Beeri Bee Orchid
Israel, Western Israel 26.2.2017 (Photo: Helmut Presser)
Ophrys umbilicata subsp. beerii / Beeri Bee Orchid, Israel,  Western Israel 26.2.2017 (Photo: Helmut Presser)
Fig. 6:  Ophrys umbilicata subsp. beerii / Beeri Bee Orchid
Israel, Western Israel 26.2.2017 (Photo: Helmut Presser)
Ophrys umbilicata subsp. beerii / Beeri Bee Orchid, Israel,  Western Israel 26.2.2017 (Photo: Helmut Presser)
Fig. 7:  Ophrys umbilicata subsp. beerii / Beeri Bee Orchid
Israel, Western Israel 26.2.2017 (Photo: Helmut Presser)
Ophrys umbilicata subsp. beerii / Beeri Bee Orchid, Israel,  Western Israel 26.2.2017 (Photo: Helmut Presser)
Fig. 8:  Ophrys umbilicata subsp. beerii / Beeri Bee Orchid
Israel, Western Israel 26.2.2017 (Photo: Helmut Presser)
   
 


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