Field notebooks : Mallorca, 1930-1935
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O. aracnites H. O. Dom Bon 312. Agrees with dess. But except as follows: Sepals whitish green tinged pink with 3 (perhaps more) green nerves - the middle one at most distinct. Antlier column is curved for- ward so that pollen sacs are above small spot in lip. The beak (if it is such) is very slight blunt v, is no once narrowed. Small spot at base of lip is bordered with grayish white and dull purple inside. Lip purple brown in center, greenish around edges, broad at base with 2 lumps, convex, notched the edges of the broad shallow lobes rolled up- ward, and between them from a little con- cavity with longer hairs than rest of lip. a tiny, yellowish green hood shaped ap- pendix turned flat back on lateral side of lip. Petala 2 small, faintly pink, velvety. Consider poss. ? O. tentheredimera Willd Note that in withering sepals turn a much deeper pink. 2-22-30 Col by Mrs Neron Bellver To root a ho. had sepals v petals more definitely pink than 2-20-30 & lip generally lighter but shape other than the same. See 7-10-30 [3-4-12 v/13-62 This seems surely to have been. O. tentheredimera Willd