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Ophrys insectifera

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Ethnobotanical Use
General Uses
Synonyms
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Subtypes (subspecies, varieties, subvarieties, forms)
Germination/Propagation
Distribution
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Internal ID UUID643fe56439caa955354207
Scientific name Ophrys insectifera
Authority L.
First published in Sp. Pl. : 948 (1753)

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Scientific name Authority First published in
Ophrys muscifera f. apiculata M.Schulze Orch. Deutschl. 26 1894
Ophrys muscifera f. bombifera Bréb. ex Rchb.f. Icon. Fl. Germ. Helv. 13-14: 79. 1851
Ophrys muscifera f. dubia Ruppert Form. Orch. Deut. 43 1912
Ophrys muscifera f. longibracteata Ruppert Verh. Naturhist. Vereines Preuss. Rheinl. Westphalens 81: 178 1924
Ophrys muscifera f. ochroleuca E.G.Camus Monogr. Orchid. 257 1908
Ophrys muscifera f. parviflora M.Schulze Mitt. Geogr. Ges. (Thüringen) Jena 8: 27 1889
Ophrys muscifera f. rotundata Ruppert Form. Orch. Deut. 43 1912
Ophrys muscifera f. subbombifera Ruppert Verh. Naturhist. Vereines Preuss. Rheinl. Westphalens 81: 178 1924
Ophrys muscifera f. virescens Ruppert Monogr. Iconogr. Orchid. Eur. 26 1928
Ophrys muscifera f. viridiflora A.Camus Iconogr. Orchid. Europe 300 1929
Orchis insectifera Crantz Stirp. Austr. Fasc. , ed. 2, 2: 481 (1769)
Ophrys insectifera var. myodes L. Sp. Pl. 849. 1753

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Language Common/alternative name
English tořič hmyzonosný
English fly orchid
Spanish epipactis myodes
Spanish orquídea mosca
Spanish orchis myodes
Spanish orchis musciflora
Spanish orchis muscaria
Arabic افريس
Belarusian Офрыс насякоманосная
Bulgarian Муховидна пчелица
Czech tořič hmyzonosný
Welsh tegeirian y clêr
Danish flueblomst
German fliegen-ragwurz
German fliegenragwurz
German tořič hmyzonosný
Estonian kärbesõis
Finnish kimalaisorho
Irish magairlín na gcuileanna
Upper Sorbian muchowa orchija
Hungarian légybangó
Italian moscaria
Italian fior mosca
lb mécken-aperhoerorchidee
Lithuanian musinis ofris
Latvian mušu ofrīda
Norwegian Bokmål flueblom
Norwegian Bokmål flueblomst
Dutch vliegenorchis
Norwegian Nynorsk flugeblom
Polish dwulistnik muszy
Russian Офрис насекомоносный
Russian Офрис насекомоносная
Slovak hmyzovník muchovitý
Swedish flugblomster
Ukrainian Офрис комахоносний
Ukrainian Офрис комахоносна
Ukrainian Комашник мухоносний

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Name Authority First published in
Ophrys insectifera subsp. aymoninii Breistr. Bull. Soc. Bot. France, Lett. Bot. 128: 71 (1981)
Ophrys insectifera subsp. insectifera Unknown
Ophrys insectifera subsp. subinsectifera (C.E.Hermos. & Sabando) O.Bolòs & Vigo Fl. Man. Paísos Catalans 4: 661 (2001)
Ophrys insectifera subsp. tytecaeana P.Delforge Orchidophile (Deuil-la-Barre) 55: 309 (1983)

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Distribution (via POWO/KEW) Top

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  • Europe
    • Eastern Europe
      • Baltic States
      • Belarus
      • Central European Russia
      • East European Russia
      • North European Russia
      • Northwest European Russia
      • Ukraine
    • Middle Europe
      • Austria
      • Belgium
      • Czechoslovakia
      • Germany
      • Hungary
      • Netherlands
      • Poland
      • Switzerland
    • Northern Europe
      • Denmark
      • Finland
      • Great Britain
      • Ireland
      • Norway
      • Sweden
    • Southeastern Europe
      • Albania
      • Bulgaria
      • Greece
      • Italy
      • Romania
      • Yugoslavia
    • Southwestern Europe
      • Baleares
      • Corse
      • France
      • Spain

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Database ID/link to page
World Flora Online wfo-0000257965
USDA Plants OPIN2
Tropicos 23513545
INPN 110410
Flora of Italy 8100
KEW urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:647942-1
The Plant List kew-141277
PFAF Ophrys insectifera
Open Tree Of Life 480785
Observations.org 2649
NCBI Taxonomy 145946
NBN Atlas NBNSYS0000002318
IUCN Red List 175957
IPNI 647942-1
iNaturalist 57468
GBIF 2792588
Freebase /m/08nw18
EPPO OPRIN
EOL 1136493
Elurikkus 5989
Wikipedia Ophrys_insectifera

Genomes (via NCBI) Top

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Scientific Literature Top

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Title Authors Publication Released IDs
Loss of fungal symbionts and changes in pollinator availability caused by climate change will affect the distribution and survival chances of myco-heterotrophic orchid species Kolanowska M Sci Rep 26-Apr-2023
PMCID:PMC10133392
doi:10.1038/s41598-023-33856-y
PMID:37100884
Pollinaria Reconfiguration Mechanism of Widespread Euro-Mediterranean Orchids: The Effects of Increasing Air Temperature Lanzino M, Palermo AM, Pellegrino G Plants (Basel) 17-May-2022
PMCID:PMC9145125
doi:10.3390/plants11101327
PMID:35631751
‘Fly to a Safer North’: Distributional Shifts of the Orchid Ophrys insectifera L. Due to Climate Change Charitonidou M, Kougioumoutzis K, Karypidou MC, Halley JM Biology (Basel) 24-Mar-2022
PMCID:PMC9025215
doi:10.3390/biology11040497
PMID:35453696
Can plants fool artificial intelligence? Using machine learning to compare between bee orchids and bees Fadzly N, Zuharah WF, Jenn Ney JW Plant Signal Behav 20-Jun-2021
PMCID:PMC8331003
doi:10.1080/15592324.2021.1935605
PMID:34151732
Genome Size Diversity in Rare, Endangered, and Protected Orchids in Poland Rewers M, Jedrzejczyk I, Rewicz A, Jakubska-Busse A Genes (Basel) 13-Apr-2021
PMCID:PMC8070121
doi:10.3390/genes12040563
PMID:33924526
Distribution of Orchids with Different Rooting Systems in the Czech Republic Štípková Z, Tsiftsis S, Kindlmann P Plants (Basel) 26-Mar-2021
PMCID:PMC8067186
doi:10.3390/plants10040632
PMID:33810576
Consistent population declines but idiosyncratic range shifts in Alpine orchids under global change Geppert C, Perazza G, Wilson RJ, Bertolli A, Prosser F, Melchiori G, Marini L Nat Commun 17-Nov-2020
PMCID:PMC7672077
doi:10.1038/s41467-020-19680-2
PMID:33203870
Gametophyte and embryonic ontogeny: understanding the reproductive calendar of Cypripedium japonicum Thunb. (Cypripedoideae, Orchidaceae), a lady’s slipper orchid endemic to East Asia Ghimire B, Son S, Kim JH, Jeong MJ BMC Plant Biol 15-Sep-2020
PMCID:PMC7493375
doi:10.1186/s12870-020-02589-9
PMID:32933474
Identification of (Z)-8-Heptadecene and n-Pentadecane as Electrophysiologically Active Compounds in Ophrys insectifera and Its Argogorytes Pollinator Bohman B, Weinstein AM, Mozuraitis R, Flematti GR, Borg-Karlson AK Int J Mol Sci 17-Jan-2020
PMCID:PMC7014428
doi:10.3390/ijms21020620
PMID:31963543
A Phylogenomic Analysis of the Floral Transcriptomes of Sexually Deceptive and Rewarding European Orchids, Ophrys and Gymnadenia Piñeiro Fernández L, Byers KJ, Cai J, Sedeek KE, Kellenberger RT, Russo A, Qi W, Aquino Fournier C, Schlüter PM Front Plant Sci 29-Nov-2019
PMCID:PMC6895147
doi:10.3389/fpls.2019.01553
PMID:31850034
Speciation, pattern recognition and the maximization of pollination: general questions and answers given by the reproductive biology of the orchid genus Ophrys Paulus HF J Comp Physiol A Neuroethol Sens Neural Behav Physiol 28-May-2019
PMCID:PMC6579770
doi:10.1007/s00359-019-01350-4
PMID:31134328
Evolutionary and functional potential of ploidy increase within individual plants: somatic ploidy mapping of the complex labellum of sexually deceptive bee orchids Bateman RM, Guy JJ, Rudall PJ, Leitch IJ, Pellicer J, Leitch AR Ann Bot 17-Apr-2018
PMCID:PMC6025197
doi:10.1093/aob/mcy048
PMID:29672665
Conservation Status of the Family Orchidaceae in Spain Based on European, National, and Regional Catalogues of Protected Species de la Torre Llorente D ScientificWorldJournal 30-Jan-2018
PMCID:PMC5830962
doi:10.1155/2018/7958689
PMID:29643757
Floral scent and species divergence in a pair of sexually deceptive orchids Gervasi DD, Selosse M, Sauve M, Francke W, Vereecken NJ, Cozzolino S, Schiestl FP Ecol Evol 28-Jun-2017
PMCID:PMC5551101
doi:10.1002/ece3.3147
PMID:28808562
Insect Visitors and Potential Pollinators of Orchis militaris (Orchidaceae) in Southern Belgium Henneresse T, Tyteca D J Insect Sci 30-Sep-2016
PMCID:PMC5043467
doi:10.1093/jisesa/iew088
PMID:27694346

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