Reinhold's Ragwurz
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Reinhold's Ragwurz ( Ophrys reinholdii ) |
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Reinhold Ragwurz ( Ophrys reinholdii ) is a plant type from the kind of Ragwurzen ( Ophrys ) in the family of orchid (Orchidaceae).
description
This herbaceous perennial plant has two ellipsoidal to spherical tubers as persistence organs. It reaches heights of growth of 20 to 60 centimeters. There are one or two scale leaves at the base of the stem . Three to six leaves are grouped together in a rosette, and one or two sheathed leaves can be found further up the stem. The approximately 25 cm long, loose inflorescence contains two to ten flowers . The egg-shaped to lanceolate sepals appear pink to red, rarely whitish or green. The hairy petals are (brownish) pink to dark green, rarely greenish in color. The deep three-lobed lip , on the other hand, appears black to dark brown-purple. Sharply contrasted with this is a light mark on the middle lobe that does not extend to the base of the lip. The side lobes of the lip are densely covered with light hair. The column does not taper towards the base, it has no eye-like thickenings at the base.
distribution
Ophrys reinholdii is distributed from the southwestern Balkans via Greece and the Aegean Islands to Turkey, Iraq and Iran. It is found on grasslands , garrigues , light forests and maquis with moderately dry soils containing limestone or sandstone . The locations range from full sun to partial shade.
pollination
Bees from the genus Eupalovskia were observed as pollinators in Ophrys reinholdii .
Systematics and botanical history
The publication H. Fleischmanns from 1908 is often given as the first description of the species, while the IPNI gives an earlier publication by Pierre Edmond Boissier , dated 1882 . The species is very diverse and is sometimes divided into different subspecies or even independent species. Buttler as well as Pedersen and Faurholdt differentiate between Ophrys reinholdii subsp. reinholdii nor Ophrys reinholdii subsp. straussii , Govaerts lists Ophrys reinholdii subsp. antiochiana on.
Reinholds Orchid ( Ophrys reinholdii subsp. Reinholdii )
The stem of this subspecies grows 15 to 30, rarely 50 cm high. The inflorescence includes 2 to 10 flowers. This subspecies blooming from March to May with a peak in April can be found up to an altitude of 1300 meters. The distribution area extends from southern Albania over almost all of Greece , the Ionian and Aegean islands to the southwest of Turkey . A single occurrence is said to exist in southeastern Bulgaria.
Strauss-orchid ( Ophrys reinholdii subsp. Straussii )
The stem of this subspecies ( Ophrys reinholdii subsp. Straussii (H.Fleischm. & Bornm.) E.Nelson ) grows 30 to 60 cm high, and the inflorescence comprises 5 to 8 flowers, these are smaller than in the previous subspecies and bloom somewhat later on. It occurs at an altitude between 200 and 2100 meters. The distribution area extends over the south of Anatolia , Cyprus, Iraq and Iran . According to Pedersen and Faurholdt, plants from Rhodes and Chios belong to the subsp. reinholdii .
Antioch Orchid ( Ophrys reinholdii subsp. Antiochiana )
Described by Baumann and Künkele in 1986 as Ophrys antiochiana and placed in 2005 by Baumann and Lorenz as a subspecies of Ophrys reinholdii , these plants come from Syria and the neighboring Turkish province of Hatay . They thrive there at altitudes between 500 and 900 meters above sea level.
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d e f Karl-Peter Buttler : Orchideen . Mosaik Verlag, 1986, ISBN 3-570-04403-3 , p. 188 .
- ↑ a b c d e f g Henrik Ærenlund Pedersen, Niels Faurholdt: Ophrys. The Bee Orchids of Europe . Kew Publishing, 2007, ISBN 978-1-84246-152-5 , pp. 1939 .
- ↑ a b c Rafaël Govaerts (ed.): Ophrys reinholdii. In: World Checklist of Selected Plant Families (WCSP) - The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew . Retrieved May 15, 2020.
- ↑ ipni.org
- ↑ a b Helmut Baumann , Siegfried Künkele and Richard Lorenz: Orchids of Europe with adjacent areas . Verlag Eugen Ulmer, Stuttgart, 2006. ISBN 978-3-8001-4162-3 . Page 188–190.
