Herbarium specimen: Ophrys insectifera
| Taxon: | Orchidaceae: Ophrys insectifera L. ("Fly Orchid") |
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| Filed in taxon folder: | Orchidaceae: Ophrys insectifera L. ("Fly Orchid") |
| Collected by: | P J Ryan |
| Collection date: | 29/5/1961 |
| Locality: | Ireland, VCH8 Co. Limerick, Mungret, Deegerty bog, about 7 miles from Mungret on the Mungret-Acheaton road. Small swamp, 300 x 50 yards, on both sides of the road, 100 yards from Morluand cross roads. On soft limestone, like the Burren. |
| Institution: | Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K) |
| Accession number: | K000773034 |
| Image: © Kew |  |
| fruits/flowers: | mature flowers |
| notes: | Leaves pale green; flowering stem pale yellow-green; bracts, ovary similar; sepals pale translucent green, deep green mid-vein; petals chocolate maroon; labellum similar, blue stripe across isthmus; column pale green, anther pink. |
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Documented by johned on 2nd June 2012.
