SITE MAP



With the years, this site grew and is now quite extensive. As it's perhaps difficult for those visiting it for the first times to find their way into the (too ?)numerous sheets.
Here are some tricks to try making their searches more easy.
The site is bilingual, English - French with English, written in black, at the top of the text.



A. Would you be new, or quite new, to the Ophrys world, begin visiting

TOP 20



B. To be informed of the new updates, have a look at

RECENT UPDATES



C. To find out species photographies, you have two ways.

α. IN

LIST OF ILLUSTRATED SPECIES


click on the name of the Ophrys you're looking for and you'll reach the group it is in.

β. Go to

CLASSIFICATION



Species are put in groups following Pierre Delforge's classification in the third edition of his Guide des Orchidées d'Europe, d'Afrique du Nord et du Proche-Orient (2005).

D. Quite irregulary abstracts of papers published in the foremost European periodicals devoted to western Palearctic orchids are added on the

OPHRYS NEWS

sheets, presenting new described taxa, the list of which can be consulted on the OPHRYS NEWS index sheet.

OPHRYS NEWS INDEX


OPHRYS NEWS 1


OPHRYS NEWS 2


OPHRYS NEWS 3


OPHRYS NEWS 4


OPHRYS NEWS 5


OPHRYS NEWS 6



E. Many sheets are also devoted to orchids of a country or an island.. They gather all photos made in these regions and are very useful to prepare an orchids trip. Here is the list of those already available (January 2008). More will follow !

ALGERIA


BALEARIC ISLANDS


CRETE


CROATIA


CYPRUS


CYTHERE


GARGANO AND APULIA


IRAN AND TURKMENISTAN


LEBANON AND SYRIA


LIBYA


PSEUDOPHRYS FROM LESBOS


RHODES


SAMOS


SARDINIA


SICILY


SICILY 2


SOUTHERN ITALY


TUNISIA


TURKEY


TUSCANY



F. Other chooses on the HOMEPAGE don't need any further explanations.

ARCHIVES

(what was cancelled as it was now obsolete)

HYBRIDS

(all hybrids present on the site)

LINKS


ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

(to all those who contributed improving the iconography of the site)

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