4. Istrian Orchids Photos: DragoKarlo For Mrs. Nada K.G.

5. Orchids (Orchideaceae) are the second largest family of flowering plants and evolutionary are young group of plants monocotyledons. Botanists know about 1,000 genera with about 25,000 species. Orchids inhabit almost all habitats, they are not only under extreme conditions. In spite of that individual are rare. In Europe, growing only 1% of all species, about 250 species. In Croatia, it is estimated that there are about 150 species. By number of species and population density, Istria is one of the richest habitats of orchids in Europe. In Istria, there are about 80 species of orchid, the area provides high orchid index (ratio of number of species toward the surface) of 25.3. For comparison it should be mentioned that Croatia has an orchid index 3.0. Although widespread along the whole of Istria, the richest site of orchids is the extreme south of Istria, the peninsula Kamenjak, which was declared a significant landscape. click to continue

6. Spiranthes spiralis

8. Platanthera chlorantha

10. Orchis purpurea

13. Ophrys sphegodes

17. Aceras anthropophorum

19. Anacamptis piramidalis

21. Cephalanthera longifolia

22. Limodorum abortivum - šiljorep

25. Ophrys bertolonii Moretti

29. Serapias lingua

31. Serapias istriaca

32. Orchis morio

37. Orchis papilionacea grandiflora

41. Ophrys fuciflora

42. Orchis papilionacea

47. Ophrys bombyliflora

48. Gymnadenia conopsea

52. Ophrys insectifera

53. Orchis laksiflora

54. Orchis simia

56. Orchis militaris

57. Orchis ustulata

58. Orchis tridentata

62. Himantoglossum adriaticum – jadranska kozonoška

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