Serapias parviflora Parlatore 1837 Photo courtesy of M.Verhart and the Orchids of France and Europe

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Common Name The Small Flowered Serapias

Flower Size 1/2" [1.2 cm]

Found on all of the Mediteranean islands as well as Morocco, Tunisia, Algeria, Spain, Portugal, France, Italy, Yugoslavia, Albania and Greeece as a cool to cold growing terestrial that blooms on an erect, terminal, 10" [20 cm] long, laxly few to several flowered inflorescence, that has large bracts that almost cover the flowers which occur in the spring.

Synonyms Serapias columnae Aurnier in H.G.L.Reichenbach 1851; Serapias elongata Todaro 1886-8; Serapias laxiflora Rchb. f. 1851; Serapias mascaensis H.Kretzschmar 1993; Serapias occultata Gay ex Cavalier 1836; Serapias parviflora f. lutescens Renz 1930 ; Serapias parviflora subsp. occultata (J.Gay) Maire & Weiller 1959

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