Serapias levantina H. Baumann & Künkele 1989 Photo courtesy of Th. Pain and the Orchids of France and Europe

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Common Name The Levant Serapias

Found in Turkey, Syria, Lebanon, Israel and Jordan as a cold to cool growing terrestrial orchid that blooms on an erect, terminal, laxly few to several flowered inflorescence, that has large bracts that almost cover the flower which occur in the spring.

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