Ophrys apifera Huds.

Jarvis, Charlie, 2007, Chapter 7: Linnaean Plant Names and their Types (part O), Order out of Chaos. Linnaean Plant Types and their Types, London: Linnaean Society of London in association with the Natural History Museum, pp. 696-717 : 704

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Ophrys insectifera Linnaeus var. arachnites Linnaeus View in CoL , Species Plantarum 2: 949. 1753.

RCN: 6855.

Lectotype (Baumann & al. in Mitteilungsbl. Arbeitskr. Heim. Orchid. Baden-Württemberg 21: 509, Abb. 31. 1989): [icon] " Orchis andrachnitis" in Plantin, Pl. Stirp. Icon.: 185. 1581.

Current name: Ophrys apifera Huds. View in CoL View at ENA ( Orchidaceae ).

Note: The varietal epithet was originally spelled “adrachnites” in the protologue but was subsequently corrected by Linnaeus. Rothmaler (in Repert. Spec. Nov. Regni Veg. 49: 280. 1940) treated this as the basionym of O. arachnites (L.) L. (1754) , followed by Greuter (in Candollea 44: 566. 1989). However, Britten (in J. Bot. 47, Suppl. 1909; 50: 312-314. 1912) argued that " O. arachnites " resulted from a typographic error. Stearn (Introd. Ray’s Syn. Meth. Stirp. Brit. (Ray Soc. ed.): 42-68. 1973) evidently agreed as he did not list the name as new.