Serapias neglecta De Notaris 1844 Photo courtesy of Th. Pain and the Orchids of France and Europe

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Common Name The Scarce Serapias

Flower Size 1 1/2" [4 cm]

Found in France, Italy, and the islands of Corsica, Sardinia and Sicily as a small sized, cold to cool growing terrestrial orchid of wet grasslands, olive groves, scrub and light pine forests at elevations below 600 meters with 2 ovoid tubers giving rise to 4 to 10, ovate to linear-lanceolate leaves that blooms on an erect, terminal, 12" [30 cm] long, laxly few [2 to 8] flowered inflorescence, that has large bracts that almost cover the flower occuring in the spring.

Synonyms Serapias apulica (H.Baumann & Künkele) P.Delforge 1990; Serapias cordigera Bertol. 1854; Serapias cordigera subsp. neglecta (De Notaris) Richter ?; Serapias neglecta subsp. apulica Landwehr 1977; Serapias orientalis subsp. apulica H.Baumann & Künkele 1989 ; Serapiastrum neglectum (De Not.) A.A.Eaton 1908

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