{"id":832,"date":"2014-07-14T20:29:35","date_gmt":"2014-07-14T18:29:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.birdinginspain.com\/blog\/general\/ophrys-bertolonii-catalaunica\/"},"modified":"2014-07-14T20:29:35","modified_gmt":"2014-07-14T18:29:35","slug":"ophrys-bertolonii-catalaunica","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.birdinginspain.com\/blog\/general\/ophrys-bertolonii-catalaunica\/","title":{"rendered":"Ophrys bertolonii catalaunica"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ophrys orchids<\/p>\n<p>My first discovery of this species was my field guide to the <strong>orchids of Catalonia<\/strong> (<em>Guia de camp de les orqu\u00eddies de Catalunya<\/em>) and I must admit to some sense of wonder that Catalonia had its own species of orchid. However, I hadn&#8217;t actually seen one until this spring.<\/p>\n<p>In early May I was escorting photographers to and from our hides based at Montson\u00eds, in the \u00a0province of Lleida. One of these was a keen Belgian photographer and naturalist, Bart Vercruysse, and he alerted us to the presence of these beautiful <strong>Ophrys orchids<\/strong> which I had never seen before. On seeing a few flowers in full bloom it was immediately obvious that they were not one of the species I was used to seeing in the area, namely O.spegodes, O.scolopax, O.apifera and O.fusca, and the name Ophrys catalaunica rang a bell in my head.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.birdinginspain.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/ocatalaunicavertical.jpg\" style=\"font-size: 1em; line-height: 1.3em\" alt=\"Ophrys bertolonii subsp. catalaunica\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.birdinginspain.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/ocatalhorizontal.jpg\" style=\"font-size: 1em; line-height: 1.3em\" alt=\"Ophrys bertolonii subsp. catalaunica\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><em style=\"color: #252525; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.399999618530273px\">Ophrys bertolonii subsp catalaunica photos by Bart Vercruysse<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Delightful, although I must admit a little disappointment on later discovering that <strong>Wikipedia <\/strong>states that O.catalunica is not acceptable, and that the scientific name of this plant should be taken as <em>Ophrys bertolnii subsp catalaunica<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Oh well, it was no less beautiful, even though it&#8217;s not accepted as a species in its own right.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ophrys orchids My first discovery of this species was my field guide to the orchids of Catalonia (Guia de camp de les orqu\u00eddies de Catalunya) and I must admit to some sense of wonder that Catalonia had its own species of orchid. However, I hadn&#8217;t actually seen one until this spring. In early May I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-832","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7I752-dq","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.birdinginspain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/832","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.birdinginspain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.birdinginspain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.birdinginspain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.birdinginspain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=832"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.birdinginspain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/832\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.birdinginspain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=832"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.birdinginspain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=832"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.birdinginspain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=832"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}