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Extremely rare; on grassy/shrubby
hillsides or dry mountain pastures; flowers in May.
A common species for the south of Italy, but
rare along the northern Adriatic. For the Marche only a handful of
records exist.
Antonio Bertoloni mentions a series
of 18th-century records of the species in the Marche in his Flora
Italica (1853): Narducci found the species in the Macerata area,
Orsini near Ascoli Piceno, and Marzialetti in the vicinity of
Montefortino. Luigi Paolucci (Flora Marchigiana, 1890-1) also
mentions that the species was found near Macerata by Cardinali and by Poli.
The only recent record, more than a
century and a half after the Bertloni's records, Franco Benigni e Metella
Fabrizi found a small population of Ophrys lutea near Treia (MC) on 7/5/2011.
Literature:
-BERTOLONI, A. (1853),
Flora Italica, Bologna, vol.9
(p.595).
-CRESCENTINI, R. & J.M.I.
KLAVER, Orchidee Spontanee della Provincia Pesaro e Urbino, con
osservazioni sulle specie delle Marche, Pesaro, 1997 (pp.266-7).
-PAOLUCCI, L. (1890-1), Flora Marchigiana, Pesaro (p.121). |
