Serapias orientalis subsp. levantina

الوصف النباتي

Habit and leaves: Plant 16–30 cm tall, with the stem often tinged red. Leaves 4–8, lanceolate, somewhat acute, 3–15 cm long; the uppermost one or two much smaller and sheathing.

Inflorescence and bracts: Inflorescence loose, with 3–6(–10) flowers. Bracts 25–42 × 11–17 mm, equalling or exceeding the floral helmet and similarly coloured.

Labellum structure: Hypochile broadly kidney-shaped to inversely heart-shaped, 8.5–12 × 14–20 mm. Epichile oval-lanceolate, 14–25 × 8–12 mm, hanging down or curved backwards, flat or with reflexed margins.

الأزهار

Flowers: Helmet grey-lilac, externally veined violet and dark red inside. Sepals 18–25 × 5–6 mm; petals somewhat shorter, 4.5–6.2 mm wide. Labellum 23–32 mm long, dark brownish-red, with two divergent violet basal lamellae and long, dense violet hairs centrally.

مواسم النبات

الإزهار

Flowering: Mainly March–April, occasionally beginning in February, according to Delforge’s account; described there as early-flowering.

الانتشار الموثق

Lebanese distribution: Véla & Viglione (2015) cite Chekka, Yahchouch, Harissa, Broumana, Monteverde and Bolonia, among other central Lebanese localities.

Recorded locations: Kornet Chehwan, Bqaatouta, Kfertay, Baskinta.

Range of the narrower taxon: Delforge describes an eastern Mediterranean range from Cyprus and Hatay south to Jerusalem, with possible eastward occurrences towards Diyarbakır and Kurdistan. The eastern extension is explicitly uncertain in his account.

Native range — POWO’s broader treatment: POWO includes this subspecies within S. orientalis, whose native range is the central and eastern Mediterranean to the western Caucasus: Cyprus, East Aegean Islands, Greece, Italy, Crete, Lebanon-Syria, North Caucasus, northwestern Balkan Peninsula, Palestine, Sicily, Transcaucasus, Türkiye and European Türkiye. This broader species distribution is not assigned wholesale to subsp. levantina.

الارتفاع الموثق

الارتفاع

600 m، 1,100 m

لمحة نباتية

بنية النبات

Habit and leaves: Plant 16–30 cm tall, with the stem often tinged red. Leaves 4–8, lanceolate, somewhat acute, 3–15 cm long; the uppermost one or two much smaller and sheathing.

الفصيلة والتصنيف

الاسم العلمي كما ورد

Serapias orientalis subsp. levantina

الفصيلة

أوركيد

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