Serapias perez-chiscanoi Acedo 1990 Photo courtesy of J-M Lewin and the Orchids of France and Europe

S vomeracea Group

Common Name Perez-Chiscanoi's Serapias [Spanish Botanist Current]

Flower Size 1/2" [1.25 cm]

Found in Spain and Portugal in damp meadows and degraded garrigue at elevations up to 400 meters as a small to medium sized, cold growing terrestrial orchid with a pale green stem carrying 3 to 7, erect, rarely spotted, sometimes curved, linear-lanceolte, chenneled-keeled leaves that blooms on an erect, terminal, 8" [20 cm] long, laxly few to several [3 to 13] flowered inflorescence, that has large bracts that almost cover the flowers which occur in the spring.

Synonyms Serapias viridis Perez Chiscano 1888

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Orchids of Europe, North Africa and the Middle East Delforge 2005

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