Long-Lipped Tongue-Orchid

Serapias vomeracea

(Burm.f.) Briq. Species

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Botanical name
Serapias vomeracea
Also known as
Long-Lipped Tongue-Orchid
Family
Orchidaceae
Genus
Serapias
Reference
World Flora Online

How to grow Long-Lipped Tongue-Orchid

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Other names for this plant

These names have all been used for Serapias vomeracea but are no longer the accepted name. You may still meet them on old labels, in books, or in nursery catalogues.

Helleborine longipetala Helleborine pseudorordigera Lonchitis longipetala Orchis lingua Orchis vomeracea Serapias cordigera subsp. vomeracea Serapias cordigera var. longipetala Serapias hirsuta Serapias lancifera Serapias longipetala Serapias orientalis var. cordigeroides Serapias pseudocordigera Serapias vomeracea f. artemisiae Serapias vomeracea f. stenopetala Serapias vomeracea lus. heldreichii Serapias vomeracea subsp. artemisiae Serapias vomeracea subsp. flava Serapias vomeracea subsp. guadarramica Serapias vomeracea subsp. longipetala Serapias vomeracea var. cordigeroides Serapias vomeracea var. guadarramica Serapias vomeracea var. longipetala Serapiastrum longipetalum Serapiastrum vomeraceum

Others in Serapias

Serapias lingua
Tongue-Orchid
Serapias orientalis
Serapias × alberti
Serapias × complicata
Serapias × cypria
Serapias × euxina
Serapias × fallax
Serapias × garganica

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