Serapias vomeracea [Burm.f.]Briq. 1910 Photo courtesy of Jeff Aguillon.

to to EARLY

Common Name The Plow-Share Serapias - The Long Lipped Serapias

Flower Size 1 1/4" [3 cm]

Found in Italy, Sicily, Yugoslavia, Albania, and Greece as a small to medium sized, cold to cool growing terrestrial occuring in dry or wet grasslands, scrub and light pine forests at elevations of sealevel to 1000 meters that blooms on an erect, terminal, laxly few to several [4 to 10] flowered inflorescence, that has large bracts that almost cover the flowers which occur in the spring to early summer.

Synonyms Helleborine longipetala Ten. 1811; Helleborine pseudocordigera Sebast. 1813; Lonchitis longipetala Bubani 1901; Orchis lingua All., Fl. Pedem. 2: 148 (1785; *Orchis vomeracea Burm. f. 1770; Serapias cordigera subsp. vomeracea (Burm.f.) H.Sund. 1980; Serapias hellenica Renz; Serapias hirsuta Lapeyr. 1813; Serapias lancifera St.-Amans 1821; Serapias longipetala (Ten.) Pollini 1824; *Serapias parviflora subsp. laxiflora Soó; Serapias pseudocordigera (Sebast.) Moric. 1820; Serapias vomeracea subsp. flava Balayer 1986; Serapias vomeracea subsp. longipetala (Ten.) H.Baumann & Künkele, Mitt 1989; Serapias vomeracea var. cordigeroides (E.Nelson) N.R.Campb. & A.K.Campb. 1986 ; Serapiastrum longipetalum (Ten.) A.A.Eaton 1908; Serapiastrum vomeraceum (Burm.f.) Schinz & Thell. 1913

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------