Serapias bergoni Camus 1908 Photo courtesy of Th. Pain and the Orchids of France and Europe
S vomeracea Group
Common Name Bergon's Searapias [French Botanist late 1800 to early 1900's]
Flower Size 1/2" [1.25 cm]
A small to medium sized, cold growing terrestrial orchid found in Sicily, Italy, Yugoslavia, Albania, Greece, Turkey and Cyprus in short, poor grasslands, damp meadows, olive groves, open woodlands and garrigue at elevations up to 1200 meters with a slender, often red streaked stem carrying 6 to 9, lanceolate leaves with the uppermost two being bract-like that blooms in the spring on an erect, racemose, to 8" [to 20 cm] long, 3 to 12 flowered inflorescence with large brown bracts almost covering the many flowers occuring in the spring.
Synonyms Serapias cordigera subsp. laxiflora (Soó) H.Sund. 1980; Serapias laxiflora Chaub. 1838; Serapias parviflora subsp. laxiflora Soó 1928; Serapias wettsteinii Fleischm. 1925
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
Orchids of Europe, North Africa and the Middle East Delforge 2005
Serapias vomeracea subsp. laxiflora (Soó) Gölz & H.R.Reinhard 1977
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