CHECK LIST OF THE IBERIAN AND BALEARIC ORCHIDS. 2. OPHRYS L.-SPIRANTHES RICH

GALAN CELA, P. & R. GAMARRA (2003). Check list of the Iberian and Balearic orchids. 2. Ophrys L. Spiranthes Rich. Anales Jard. Bot. Madrid 60(2): 309-329. A check list of the taxa of the family Orchidaceae found in the Iberian Peninsula and the Balearic Islands is presented in alphabetical order. This section includes the genera from Ophrys to Spiranthes, down to the rank of variety, but excluding hybrids. We have gathered together the correct names, with their corresponding place of publication, synonyms and indicatio locotypica. Also included are some observations in those genera and species that present nomenclatural and taxonomic problems. Lectotypes for Orchis broteroana Rivas Goday & Bellot. and O. mascula subsp. laxifloraeformis Rivas Goday & Bellot are designated here.


INTRODUCTION
. Two species are included here whose presence in Iberian territory has yet to This is the second instalment of a nomen-be confirmed, but whose existence on French clatural catalogue of the Iberian Orchidaceae, Pyrenean slopes suggests they may also beranging from the genus Ophrys to Spiranthes.long to the Iberian flora.Finally, a number of The methods used are those described in the species are discussed, which, owing to confuprevious instalment (GALAN CELA & GA-sion in their identification and perhaps typo-graphical errors, have been reported present in the Iberian Peninsula but which are now excluded due to the lack of positive herbarium evidence and the geographical separation of their areas of distribution. CHECKLIST Ophrys L., Sp. PL 2: 945 (1753) This is one of the most complex genera of all Iberian and Mediterranean flora.Here, it is interpreted following the criteria of BAUMANN & KUNKELE (1986), DEVILLERS & DEVILLERS-Ind.loc: "Holotypus: Hispania provincia Tarragona, Muntanyes de Prades, circa Capafons (UTM: 31TCF36), alt.s.m. 780 m, 9. VI.1989 Ind. loc: "Grand Atlas: Ourika, Mont Agaiouar, paturages vers 1800 m, en particulier pres de la source voisine de la maison forestiere".
Observations.-IndexKewensis records only the second work of Brotero as the place where this binomial is described.Ind. loc: "This plant was sent from Rome to the Horticultural Society, in 1826, by Signor Mauri, under the name of Ophrys araneifera".
Observations.-Wehere correct the Index Kewensis that records tab.1807 as the place of publication of Ophrys atrata Lindl.
Observations.-ln the mentioned publication, Rivas Goday indicates the place of description of this variety as "Rev.Crit.Orch.Hisp.1: 39", but gives no year.This publication is not mentioned in Izco (1981), nor do we know of any publication with a similar name. -
Observations.-These two species have been included among the Spanish flora in several old works on the basis of citings for the Pyrenees and the mountain systems of the interior.This was probably due to confusion with other taxa of the family Orchidaceae, but the proximity of specimens on the French slopes of the Pyrenees means their presence in Iberian territory cannot be ruled out.Observations.-DELFORGE(2001: 169) includes the initials "Hs", meaning Spain, in the list of countries where this species is found.This may be an error since its distribution is northern Europe and Scandinavia.
-DELFORGE (2001: 121) includes this species as growing in Spain.However, as for Dactylorhiza ochroleuca, this might be an error since the taxon has a circumboreal distribution and has nowhere else been cited as a member of the Iberian flora.
Neottianthe cucullata (L.) Observations.-DELFORGE (1994: 302) indicates that this species has a circummediterranean biogeographical distribution in Spain and Portugal, but the same author (2001:374) and PAULUS (2001) place it exclusively in the eastern Mediterranean.