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The serapias vomeracea ( Serapias vomeracea ) is a plant from the family of the Orchid Family (Orchidaceae).
description
The perennial plant reaches heights of 10 to 60 centimeters and has two spherical underground tubers. The four to seven leaves in the lower stem section are narrow-lanceolate and up to 19 centimeters long. The two upper leaves are like bracts and flowers crowded brown violet.
The inflorescence is composed of three to ten flowers. The bracts are much longer than the steeply erected helmet. This is formed from five pointed bracts and is pale purple to gray-purple on the outside. The front part of the brown-purple lip is two to three centimeters long and up to 12 millimeters wide. The posterior section is broadly wedge-shaped, with darker colored, erect lateral lobes.
Flowering time is from March to June.
Occurrence
The plant prefers poor grasslands , garigues , fallow land, light forests (especially pines and chestnuts) and olive trees as a location .
The distribution area covers almost the entire Mediterranean area from the Iberian Peninsula and southern France to the East Aegean and Asia Minor , as well as northwest Africa. In the north it extends to the Swiss Alps.
Systematics
Some authors differentiate between three subspecies, which other authors regard as independent species:
- Serapias vomeracea subsp. vomeracea ; as described here. The subspecies thrives at altitudes between 0 and 1450 meters above sea level.
- Schlankwüchsiger tongue Stendel ( serapias vomeracea subsp. Laxiflora (Soó) Goelz & HRReinhard ); with loose-flowered, elongated inflorescence; front lip section up to 18 millimeters long. As a species it has the name Serapias bergonii E.G. Camus .
- Oriental tongues ( Serapias vomeracea subsp. Orientalis Greuter ); with a wider lip and bracts that are hardly longer than the helmet. As a species it bears the name Serapias orientalis (Greuter) H.Baumann & Künkele .
literature
- Dankwart Seidel: Flowers on the Mediterranean. Determine accurately with the 3-check . BLV, Munich 2002, ISBN 3-405-16294-7 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Rafaël Govaerts (ed.): Serapias vomeracea. In: World Checklist of Selected Plant Families (WCSP) - The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew . Retrieved March 24, 2020.
- ^ Helmut Baumann , Siegfried Künkele and Richard Lorenz: Orchids in Europe with adjacent areas . Verlag Eugen Ulmer, Stuttgart, 2006. ISBN 978-3-8001-4162-3 . Page 298.
