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you are right Janssen, recognision is problematic... however H. mannii has long lanceolate leafs (probable type: http://apps.kew.org/herbcat/getImage.do ... K000106490 ) so I do not think so...

according to Demiseew et al. 2004, Field guide to Ethiopian orchids, Habenaria malacophylla looks like this http://www.vumba-nature.com/Habenaria%20malcophylla.htm This may be (according to the aforementioned reference) H. splendens however without any other photographs and measurements it is hard t...

great news, thank you for the information!! all the best

Thank you Ton!

great find if it is so... aren there any more pictures? one of the whole plant would be enlighting

as a hybrid, it has a wider distribution. There are O. x vetula even in Greece

this beauty is Ophrys spegodes ssp. atrata as typical as it can get!

I think these are Ophrys x vetula (O. scolopax x O. fuciflora)

excellent!

if you don t want it, I can adopt it! love Cyps.

what for?

these are millions of names... in species occuring in Greece, the estimate of names (valid + synonyms) is about 3300 for orchids

figure 5 has a style tip shaped '~' there is only one Ophrys with that thing... and it is not O. fuciflora.
But yes, it is a nightmare, with all the thousands of names going around.

Jansenn is right... fig 5 is an O. apifera and fig. 5 says the protologue (not 1266 which is the number of the whole illustration which is dominated by O fuciflora). Just in case, if anyone has any doubt on what state is the literature...