Man Orchid

Height: 10-40cm
Colour: Green, Red, Yellow
Flowering: April to June
Soil type: Limestone

Portuguese: Erva-do-homem-enforcado
Catalan: Flor de l’home penjat

This orchid may be found in large open groups but its small size can make it difficult to see initially. There are around 50 individual flowers on one stem with green sepals forming a tight hood over a small figure with four “limbs”. The “man” can be red, yellow or an intermediate shade. The dense flowers are often slightly angled on the stem.

They can be found in well drained limestone areas, partially shaded as in matorral / shrubland or in open zones of garrigue up to an altitude of 1600m (also occasionally in woodland clearings).

Aceras anthropophorum W. T. Aiton
Synonyms: Aceras anthropophorum, Ophrys anthropophorum

These images of orchids were taken in Southern Spain, many terrestrial species are widespread from the Iberian peninsular eastwards through the Mediterranean region.

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