OPHRYS LACAITAE  Lojacono

Last updated 23/12/2010

Very rare plant; endemic for Sicily and the south of Italy, where it has been recorded for the provinces Potenza, Salerno, Isernia, Latina, Foggia.

The two plants depicted here were photographed a few miles north of Monte Sant'Angelo on the Gargano (FG) in May 1991. They grew in dry, grassy and stony places with Ophrys tenthredinifera, Neotinea (Orchis) tridentata and Serapias parviflora. Only these two small specimens could be found at this site.

Literature:

-DELFORGE, Pieere (1994), Guide des Orchidées d'Europe, d'Afrique du Nord et du Proche-Orient, Lausanne (p.325).

-DEL FUOCO, Claudio (2003), Orchidee del Gargano, Monte Sant'Angelo (p.196).