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Hello Admin, The question which is troubling you, now, is a good one. Here is the recent history : In his 1993 paper, Delforge included Op. fusca sensu stricto in the list of Maltese orchids, giving even a photo. He also gave a photo of a bilunulata x mesaritica hybrid. Now in the third, more recent ...

You are perfectly right, Robcar, in everything you say in your reply. The whole, or almost the whole, of recent litterature about European orchids taxonomy is either in German, either in French, and always in quite difficult to get specialized periodicals. Anyway I suppose you know Stephen quite ...

On jan 24, 2006 Jl-Pine posted a Ophrys slide which was for sure correctly identified as O. mesaritica by MWP admin on the same day. The two ridges are clearly visible proving this plant to belong to the iricolor group. These Ophrys of the iricolor - fusca groups are quite , or even very difficult ...

The photos shown on the entries for Saturday, January 07, 2006 (at least A1, A2, B1, B2, B3, C2, C3, D1, D2, D3) and Friday, January 06, 2006 by HWP Admin, are clearly photos of an Ophrys belonging to the O. iricolor group, stongly characterized by the two ridges located at the base of lip. The very ...