Serapias vomeracea
Serapias vomeracea
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Plants 10-40 cm. Leaves lanceolate, basal broader, often curved outwards. Spike elongate or condensed, 3-20-flowered. Bracts lanceolate, ± exceeding the spreading flowers. Sepal hood 20-26 mm, greyish-purple outside. Epichile broadly to narrowly lanceolate, oblong-lanceolate or narrowly cordate, ± bent backwards, 15-30 mm, glabrous to densely hairy near base, dark purple, brownish or ochre-red. Hypochile broad, ± projecting from hood. Beak of column 3-6 mm.
1. Spike usually short and condensed, 3-6-flowered; epichile densely hairy near base, usually broadly lanceolate, spreading or directed downwards subsp. orientalis
1. Spike usually elongate , lax, 4-l2-flowered; epichile glabrous or slightly hairy near base, usually narrow, often strongly bent backwards subsp. laxiflora
