Bill's Photographs of Terrestrial orchids O

The current suggestion, based on DNA analysis, is that there are in fact only nine or ten species of Ophrys and all the other "species" are sub-species, hybrids, forms or varieties.

The species may be O insectifera, speculum, tenthredinifera, bombyliflora, fusca, apifera, umbilicata, sphegodes, fuciflora and scolopax. We await further developments with interest, but we are not holding while we wait for them to tell us what to call each "species"!

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Ophrys aesculapii      Ophrys apifera (normal form)      Ophrys apifera abnormal (forms)            

   

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O. apifera var. bicolor      O. a. var. chlorantha   O. apifera var. flaviscens         O.apifera var. trollii                 

 

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Ophrys apifera x insectifera        Ophrys bombyliflora                Ophrys bornmeulleri             

Ophrys candica   Ophrys candica   Ophrys candica    

Ophrys candica 

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Ophrys cornuta                                           Ophrys cretica

Ophrys dodekanensis     Ophrys dodekanensis

Ophrys dodekanensis

 

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Ophrys dyris                                 Ophrys elegans               Ophrys epirotica

    

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               Ophrys episcopalis                   Ophrys ferrum-equinum     Ophrys flavomarginata  Op. fleischmannii   

 

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     Ophrys fuciflora                       Ophrys fusca                                       Ophrys gottfriedianum                

 

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      Ophrys hebes                           Ophrys heldreichii

 

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               Ophrys helenae                                 Ophrys insectifera

 

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Op. insectifera (chlorotic form)  Op. iricolor     Op. karpathensis         Ophrys kotschii        

 

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                      Ophrys levantina                                Ophrys lucis                          

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Ophrys lutea            Ophrys mammosa     Ophrys omegaifera

 

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Ophrys picta                          Ophrys regis-ferdinandii                         Ophrys reinholdii 

Ophrys rhodia    Ophrys rhodia

Ophrys rhodia

 

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                                        Ophrys scolopax                                             Ophrys sicula      Ophrys sintenisii

 

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   Ophrys speculum       Ophrys sphegodes        Ophrus spruneri    

 

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Ophrys tenthredinifera

 

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    Ophrys tetraloniae                                                     Ophrys umbilicata

 

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Ophrys vernixia                                       Orchis anatolica

 

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Orchis (Aceras) anthropophorum                       Orchis canariensis                             

 

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Orchis italica                       Orchis mascula                              Orchis militaris

 

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Orchis olbiensis   Or. pauciflora   Or. provincialis  Or. punctata                             Orchis purpurea     

 

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Orchis purpurea x simia

 

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Orchis quadripunctata                                             Orchis signifera

 

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                             Orchis italica                                  Orchis sitiaca            Orchis troodii