- Family: Orchidaceae Juss.
- Genus: Ophrys L.
Ophrys sphegodes Mill.
- Genus: Ophrys L.
This species is accepted, and its native range is W. & S. Europe to N. Iran.
Descriptions
According to Orchideae: e-monocot.org
[O-EM]- Distribution
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From southern England across central and southern Europe and the Levant to the Caucasus and northern Iran. [Aeg, Alb, Aus, Bal, Bel, Bul, Cor, Cre, Cze, Eng, Fra, Ger, Gre, Hun, Lux, Ita, Mal, Por, Rum, Rus, Sar, Sic, Spa, Swi, Tur, Ukr, Yug; Ana, Cyp, Isr]
- Habitat
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Dry to moist soil in full sunlight to light shade, from sea level to 1400 m altitude. Typical habitats include garrigue, roadside slopes, open woods, grassland and pesticide-free olive groves on calcareous as well as slightly acid ground.
- General Description
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Plant slender, (10-)15-60(-70) cm tall with 2-12(-18) flowers in a lax to dense spike. Sepals pale green to yellowish green, (olive-)green, white or purplish violet (the lateral ones sometimes distinctly bicoloured with the mid-vein constituting a boundary), now and then suffused with violet to purplish brown, ovate to elliptic or (ob)lanceolate-oblong, 7-19 × (2-)3-9 mm; dorsal sepal nearly flat (less often shallowly boat-shaped), more or less incurved, from the base reflexed. Petals (ochre-)yellow to olive-green or pale green (often suffused with red to brown) or bright purplish violet to ruby, linear-lanceolate to oblong or (ovate-)triangular with flat to strongly wavy margins, 4-13 × 1.5-7 mm, glabrous to pubescent, recurved to spreading. Lip with (blackish, reddish or purplish) brown ground colour and often a light brown to yellow or yellowish green, less frequently reddish brown margin, straight, nearly flat or with more or less recurved sides, entire or slightly to moderately (rarely deeply) three-lobed close to the middle, 5-18(-20) × 7-18 mm, (sub)glabrous to strongly shaggy along the margin (often more hairy towards the base), otherwise (sub)glabrous; bulges weakly developed to obliquely conical (sometimes absent), distinctly isolated from the margin of the lip (side lobes flat, if present); front edge obtuse to emarginate, usually provided with a short, porrect to downward directed, triangular point; mirror distinct absent in subsp. helenae, most frequently consisting of an H-shaped figure or another simple figure derived from this, sometimes considerably more complicated and/or marbled, distinctly connected to the base of the lip, dull greyish blue to violet (rarely reddish brown), sometimes with a pale border. Column acute (to obtuse); not tapering towards the base (in side view); stigmatic cavity approximately as wide as long and approximately twice as wide as the anther, with dark or pale, lateral, eye-like knobs at base.
Distribution
Native to:
Albania, Austria, Baleares, Belgium, Bulgaria, Corse, Cyprus, Czechoslovakia, East Aegean Is., France, Germany, Great Britain, Greece, Hungary, Iran, Iraq, Italy, Kriti, Krym, Lebanon-Syria, North Caucasus, Palestine, Portugal, Romania, Sardegna, Sicilia, Spain, Switzerland, Transcaucasus, Turkey, Turkey-in-Europe, Turkmenistan, Yugoslavia
Accepted Infraspecifics
- Ophrys sphegodes subsp. aesculapii (Renz) Soó ex J.J.Wood
- Ophrys sphegodes subsp. araneola (Rchb.) M.Laínz
- Ophrys sphegodes var. argentaria (Devillers-Tersch. & Devillers) Faurh.
- Ophrys sphegodes subsp. atrata (Rchb.f.) A.Bolòs
- Ophrys sphegodes subsp. aveyronensis J.J.Wood
- Ophrys sphegodes subsp. catalcana Kreutz
- Ophrys sphegodes subsp. cretensis H.Baumann & Künkele
- Ophrys sphegodes subsp. epirotica (Renz) Gölz & H.R.Reinhard
- Ophrys sphegodes subsp. gortynia H.Baumann & Künkele
- Ophrys sphegodes subsp. helenae (Renz) Soó & D.M.Moore
- Ophrys sphegodes nothosubsp. jeanpertii (E.G.Camus) Del Prete & Conte
- Ophrys sphegodes subsp. mammosa (Desf.) Soó ex E.Nelson
- Ophrys sphegodes subsp. passionis (Sennen) Sanz & Nuet
- Ophrys sphegodes subsp. sipontensis (Kreutz) H.A.Pedersen & Faurh.
- Ophrys sphegodes subsp. sphegodes
- Ophrys sphegodes subsp. spruneri (Nyman) E.Nelson
Other Data
Ophrys sphegodes Mill. appears in other Kew resources:
Herbarium Catalogue (37 records)
Date | Reference | Identified As | Barcode | Type Status |
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United Kingdom | 185.000 | |||
20403.000 | ||||
United Kingdom | 5825.000 | |||
Summerhayes, V.S., United Kingdom | 20761.000 | |||
Atkinson, R., United Kingdom | 20401.000 | |||
Atkinson, R., United Kingdom | 5830.000 | |||
Maude, A.H., France | 182.000 | |||
Watson, J.M. [27], Turkey | 184.000 | |||
Pennington, T. [s.n.], France | 77519.000 | |||
Jannings, E.M., United Kingdom | 183.000 | |||
Jones, E., United Kingdom | 23201.000 | |||
Goulimy, C.N., Greece | 20786.000 | |||
Allison, J.M., United Kingdom | 20406.000 | |||
Chesterman, D.D. [253], France | 29047.447 | |||
Chesterman, D.D. [254], France | 40699.000 | |||
Chesterman, D.D. [155], Italy | 40928.000 | |||
Chesterman, D.D. [233], Italy | 44318.000 | |||
Chesterman, D.D. [227], Italy | 44319.000 | |||
Chesterman, D.D. [237], Italy | 44323.000 | |||
Wood, J.J. [306], Italy | 39423.000 | |||
Wood, J.J. [252], Greece | 39446.000 | |||
Wood, J.J. [303], Italy | 39475.000 | |||
Wood, J.J. [342], Italy | 39483.000 | |||
Wood, J.J. [332], Italy | 39542.000 | |||
Wood, J.J. [341], Italy | 39543.000 | |||
Wood, J.J. [333], Italy | 39545.000 | |||
Wood, J.J. [329], Italy | 39624.000 | |||
Gilmour, J. | 33768.000 | |||
Norman, T. [4], Turkey | 37047.000 | |||
Worsdell, W.C., United Kingdom | 34473.000 | |||
Collins, P.B. [75/003], Italy | 41298.000 | |||
Joseph, J. [259], Spain | 48804.000 | |||
Joseph, J. [379], Spain | 48809.000 | |||
Farrell, L. [s.n.], United Kingdom | 56304.000 | |||
Messel, Italy | 5820.000 | |||
Bennett, W.F., United Kingdom | 5824.000 | |||
Butcher, D. [46], France | 76429.000 |
Bibliography
First published in Gard. Dict. ed. 8: n.º 8 (1768)
Accepted by
- Dimopoulos, P., Raus, T., Bergmeier, E., Constantinidis, T., Iatrou, G., Kokkini, S., Strid, A., & Tzanoudakis, D. (2013). Vascular plants of Greece. An annotated checklist: 1-372. Botanic gardens and botanical museum Berlin-Dahlem, Berlin and Hellenic botanical society, Athens.
- Dobignard, D. & Chatelain, C. (2010). Index synonymique de la flore d'Afrique du nord 1: 1-455. Éditions des conservatoire et jardin botaniques, Genève.
- Faurholdt, N. & Pedersen, H.Æ. (2009). Flueblomster fra Marokko til Mellemøsten: 1-122. Dansk Orchide Klub og forfatterne.
- G.I.R.O.S. (2009). Orchidee d'Italia: 1-303. Il Castello srl, Italy.
- Pedersen, H.Æ. & Faurholdt, N. (2007). Ophrys. The Bee Orchids of Europe: 1-297. The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
- Devillers-Terschuren, J., Delforge, P. & Devillers, P. (2006). Ophrys sphegodes Miller 1768, nom correct, et Ophrys aranifera Hudson 1778, synonyme postérieur, s'appliquent bien à la même espèce Naturalistes Belges; Bulletin Mensuel 87: 85-120.
- Castroviejo, S. & al. (eds.) (2005). Flora Iberica 21: 1-366. Real Jardín Botánico, CSIC, Madrid.
- Galán Cela, P. & Gamarra, R. (2003). Check List of the Iberian and Balearic Orchids 2 Anales del Jardin Botanico de Madrid 60: 309-329.
- Govaerts, R. (2003). World Checklist of Monocotyledons Database in ACCESS: 1-71827. The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
Sources
Herbarium Catalogue Specimens
'The Herbarium Catalogue, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Published on the Internet http://www.kew.org/herbcat [accessed on Day Month Year]'. Please enter the date on which you consulted the system.
Kew Backbone Distributions
The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Selected Plant Families 2019. Published on the Internet at http://www.ipni.org and http://apps.kew.org/wcsp/
© Copyright 2017 World Checklist of Selected Plant Families. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0
Kew Names and Taxonomic Backbone
The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Selected Plant Families 2019. Published on the Internet at http://www.ipni.org and http://apps.kew.org/wcsp/
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