Serapias orientalis (Greuter) H. Baumann & Künkele 1968 Photo courtesy of F.Verhart and the Orchids of France and Europe
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Common Name The Eastern Serapias
Found in Greece, Turkey, Syria, Lebanon, Israel and Jordan as a cool to warm growing terrestrial orchid that blooms on an erect, terminal, laxly few flowered inflorescence, that has large bracts that almost cover the flower which occur in the spring.
Synonyms Serapias carica (H.Baumann & Künkele) P.Delforge 1994; Serapias carica var. monantha P.Delforge 1999; Serapias cordigera subsp. orientalis (Greuter) H.Sund. 1980; Serapias cycladum H.Baumann & Künkele 1989; Serapias feldwegiana H.Baumann & Künkele 1989; Serapias ionica (E.Nelson) H.Baumann & Künkele 1988; Serapias neglecta var. ionica E.Nelson 1968; Serapias orientalis subsp. carica H.Baumann & Künkele 1989; Serapias orientalis var. cordigeroides E.Nelson 1968 ; *Serapias vomeracea subsp. orientalis Greuter 1972; Serapias patmia M.Hirth & H.Spaeth 1994
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Found in Sicily as a warm 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.
Synonyms Serapias orientalis var. siciliensis (Bartolo & Pulv.) P.Delforge 2000
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