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didn t get much from the translation but I said Limodorum abortivum for the 1st because of the bracts... the 2nd, a good picture of the dried leafs would help.

most probably
Limodorum abortivum
Anacamptis coriophora (or A. x kallithea)
Orchis italica
Neotinea maculata

there comes the next generation!

very beautiful... it looks very much like what is called '' Orchis mascula ssp. speciosa '' however I am not sure the name is published properly. Protologue: http://bibdigital.rjb.csic.es/ing/Libro.php?Libro=1974&Pagina=243 illustration mentioned in the protologue (fig. 291): http://bibdigital.rjb.c...

thank you very much!!

it was a trick question... the name was first published validly here (checked and cleared 2 weeks ago): Serapias orientalis E.Nelson Monogr. & Ikonogr. Orchid.-Gattung. Serapias, Aceras, Loroglossum, Barlia 16, t. 2, figs. 3-6. 1968 holotype herbarium Nelson No. 27 (Kreta) http://www.ipni.org/ipni/i...

but to my defence, we are living in a post-Linnean era (where there is too much confusion on names and what they mean). For example, there is '' Ophrys oestrifera M. Bieb.'' (= O. apifera , WCSF) This is given in Delforge (2006) as '' O. oestrifera Steven'' there is no publication of Steven with tha...

very nice!

yes, I agree, many pictures are not right! and many names too! it is a product of its time.

very beautiful! any more pictures from the plants around? it could help with id...

My dutch are almost non excistant. However, google's dutch are quite good!!! and so it translates. I am a botanist by training, and co-author of this one http://koeltz.com/Orchids-Greece.aspx Lately I am taxonomic advisor to the Greek Orchid Society where I manage the taxonomic and cultural database...

I ve lived for years in the UK mind you...
You know the problem with Greece is that the estate is lovely. But it finishes there. I cannot relate culturally anymore with my fellow citizens.

Hello. I live here.

you see, it is for me a new experience. In Greece you have to go to high and quite isolated mountain areas to see Dactylorhiza. You can see Ophrys in the middle of Athens, however Dactylorhiza are rare.

thank you! hopefully I will find more, the area seems promising.