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Orchid Species: Serapias rubra

Kew currently accepted name is Cephalanthera rubra

Serapias rubra is an orchid species identified by L. in 1767. Culture information and photos for this orchid are commonly detailed under the currently accepted name of Cephalanthera rubra.
Genus
Serapias (Srps.)
Grex
rubra
Parents
Species
Author
L.
Year
1767
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ORIGIN: From Great Britain, Norway, Sweden, Finland, Denmark, Portugal, Spain, France, Belgium, Netherlands, Germany, Czechloslavakia, Austria, Hungary, Switzerland, Italy, Balaeric Islands, Corsica, Sardinia, Sicily, Yugoslavia, Albania, Eastern Aegean Islands, Greece, Cyprus, Turkey, Bulgaria, Romania, Poland, Ukraine, Western Russia, Central Russia, Algeria, Morocco, Turkemenistan and Iran.

DESCRIPTION: A medium sized, cool to cold growing terrestrial orchid with an erect, slender, pubescent stem with brown basal leaf sheaths and carrying 3 to 8, oblong-lanceolaate below and linear-lanceolate above leaves that blooms in the late spring and early summer on an apical, to 4 [10 cm] long, lax, few to several [6 to 12] flowered inflorescence with flowers that do not open fully.

FLOWER SIZE: 3/4 inch [1.95 cm] -- information provided by Jay Pfahl, author of the Internet Orchid Species Encyclopedia (IOSPE).
Other Names
Genus Name Genus Grex Name Year Author
Add+ Cephalanthera Ceph rubra 1817 (L.) Rich.
Add+ Limodorum Limo rubrum 1891 (L.) Kuntze
Add+ Dorycheile Dorycheile rubra 1866 (L.) Fuss
Add+ Epipactis Epcts rubra 1795 (L.) F.W.Schmidt
Add+ Helleborine Helleborine rubra 1814 (L.) Schrank
Add+ Cephalanthera Ceph comosa 1844 Tineo in G.Gussone
Add+ Cephalanthera Ceph rubra lusus albiflora 1898 (Harz) Touss. & Hoschedé
Add+ Cymbidium Cym rubrum 1800 (L.) Sw.
Add+ Epipactis Epcts purpurea 1769 Crantz
Add+ Epipactis Epcts rubra lusus albiflora 1896 Harz in D.F.L.von Schlechtendal
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