Ophrys omegaifera subsp. omegaifera

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Ophrys omegaifera subsp. omegaifera
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Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Monocots
Order: Asparagales
Family: Orchidaceae
Subfamily: Orchidoideae
Genus: Ophrys
Species:
O. omegaifera

H.Fleischm.
Subspecies:
O. o. subsp. omegaifera
Trinomial name
Ophrys omegaifera subsp. omegaifera
Synonyms [1]
  • Ophrys apollonaePaulus & M.Hirth
  • Ophrys polycratisP.Delforge

Ophrys omegaifera subsp. omegaifera, synonym Ophrys apollonae (the Apollona bee-orchid), is a subspecies of orchid native to France, Greece, Crete, the East Aegean Islands and Turkey. [1] Very early flowering forms native to Greece, the East Aegean Islands and Turkey have been distinguished as Ophrys apollonae. [2] They usually have a shorter stem and with one (more rarely two) small flowers, with length just above 1 cm, [3] and a lip 11.7 – 13.7 mm long, much smaller than that of Ophrys omegaifera var. basilissa, which is also a very early flowering plant. [4] As of December 2023, Plants of the World Online treated Ophrys apollonae as a synonym of Ophrys omegaifera subsp. omegaifera. [1]

Local names

References

  1. 1 2 3 "Ophrys omegaifera subsp. omegaifera". Plants of the World Online . Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew . Retrieved 2023-12-13.
  2. 1 2 Nejdet Bozkurt and Hasan Yıldırım (2015), "Türkiye için yeni bir tür kaydı: Ophrys apollonae Paulus & M. Hirth (Orchidaceae)". Bağbahçe Bilim Dergisi 2(2): 20–26 (in Turkish)
  3. ↑ Orchids of Greece
  4. ↑ Ophrys news-6
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