Ophrys speculum, close-up
It is a herbaceous bulbous geophytes, 5-20 cm high, with lower leaves ovate-lanceolate, arranged in a rosette, and upper leaves and bracts enveloping wide and concave. The inflorescence includes from 2 to 8 flowers with sepals divergent side, greenish color with brown streaks and median sepal oblong, with apex round, brown in color; the petals are short, pubescent, purple. The lip is three-lobed, rimmed with thick hair reddish brown; the median lobe larger, ovate, is almost entirely occupied by a macula silvery bluish-edged yellow, which is the mainstay of the species, while the side lobes are lanceolate, yellow-reddish. The gynostemium, hidden by the sepals, is short and rounded apex.
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Location: Sicily, Italy, Europe
Photo credit: © Diego Barucco / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
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Keywords: biology, botanic, close, close-, details, flora, green, liliopsida, macro, macrophotography, magnoliophyta, nature, ophrys, orchidaceae, orchidales, orchideae, orchidinae, orchidoideae, speculum, vegetable
