Serapias
Encyclopedia
Serapias is a genus
of terrestrial orchids
that can be found all over southern Europe to Asia Minor. The genus was named after Serapis, a syncretic Hellenistic-Egyptian god in Antiquity.
Serapias have spurless flowers and usually go dormant during the winter seasons.
Genus
In biology, a genus is a low-level taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms, which is an example of definition by genus and differentia...
of terrestrial orchids
Orchidaceae
The Orchidaceae, commonly referred to as the orchid family, is a morphologically diverse and widespread family of monocots in the order Asparagales. Along with the Asteraceae, it is one of the two largest families of flowering plants, with between 21,950 and 26,049 currently accepted species,...
that can be found all over southern Europe to Asia Minor. The genus was named after Serapis, a syncretic Hellenistic-Egyptian god in Antiquity.
Serapias have spurless flowers and usually go dormant during the winter seasons.
Species
- Serapias bergoniiSerapias bergoniiSerapias bergonii is a species of orchid found from Italy to western and southern Turkey....
- Serapias cordigeraSerapias cordigeraSerapias cordigera is a species of orchid found from the Azores, south-central Europe to the Mediterranean....
- Serapias cossyrensis
- Serapias istriaca
- Serapias levantina
- Serapias linguaSerapias linguaSerapias lingua, common name, Toungue orchid or The Tongue Serapias, is a species of orchid native to the Mediterranean. It can be found in damp meadows and open fields of Portugal, Spain, France, Italy, Yugoslavia, Albania, Greece and all the Mediterranean islands west of Crete and in western...
- Serapias neglectaSerapias neglectaSerapias neglecta is a species of orchid endemic to southern Europe....
- Serapias nurrica
- Serapias olbia
- Serapias orientalisSerapias orientalisSerapias orientalis is a species of orchid occurring from the east-central and eastern Mediterranean to the western Transcaucasus.-Subspecies:*S. orientalis ssp. apulica H.Baumann & Künkele, 1989...
- Serapias parvifloraSerapias parvifloraSerapias parviflora is a species of orchid native to the Canary Islands and the Mediterranean Basin....
- Serapias perez-chiscanoiSerapias perez-chiscanoiSerapias perez-chiscanoi is a species of orchid endemic to western Portugal and western Spain....
- Serapias politisii
- Serapias strictiflora
- Serapias vomeraceaSerapias vomeraceaSerapias vomeracea, common name Long Lipped Serapias or the Plow-Share Serapias, is a species of orchid in the genus Serapias.-Etymology:...
Natural Hybrids
- Serapias × albertii (S. neglecta × S. vomeracea)
- Serapias × ambigua ( S. cordigera × S. lingua)
- Serapias × ambigua nothosubsp. ambigua ( S. cordigera × S. lingua)
- Serapias × ambigua nothosubsp. panormosana (S. cordigera subsp. cretica × S. lingua)
- Serapias × cypria (S. bergonii × S. orientalis subsp. levantina )
- Serapias × euxina (S. bergonii × S. orientalis)
- Serapias × garganica (S. orientalis × S. vomeracea)
- Serapias × godferyi (S. cordigera × S. neglecta)
- Serapias × halacsyana (S. bergonii × S. cordigera)
- Serapias × halicarnassia (S. bergonii × S. orientalis subsp. carica)
- Serapias × intermedia (S. lingua × S. vomeracea)
- Serapias × kelleri (S. cordigera × S. vomeracea)
- Serapias × lupiensis (S. lingua × S. politisii)
- Serapias × meridionalis (S. lingua × S. neglecta)
- Serapias × oulmesiaca (S. lingua × S. cordigera subsp. cordigera)
- Serapias × provincialis ( S. cordigera × S. olbia)
- Serapias × pulae (S. istriaca × S. lingua)
- Serapias × rainei ( S. cordigera × S. parviflora)
- Serapias × todaroi (S. lingua × S. parviflora)
- Serapias × walravensiana (S. orientalis subsp. carica × S. lingua)