Serapias cordigera L., 1763

Common names

• 🇫🇷 Sérapias en coeur

Taxonomy

• Kingdom: Plantae
• Clade: Tracheophytes
• Clade: Angiosperms
• Clade: Monocots
• Order: Asparagales
• Family: Orchidaceae
• Subfamily: Orchidoideae
• Tribe: Orchideae
• Subtribe: Orchidinae
• Genus: Serapias
• Species: Serapias cordigera

Presence

Present.

Conservation status

• Red List (Metropolitan France): NT Near Threatened
• Red List (Europe): LC Least Concern

Notes

Possible confusion with S. vomeracea (Burm.f.) Briq., 1910, whose flowers are light reddish-purple, with a narrow, elongated labellum, while those of S. cordigera are dark reddish-purple, with a broad, heart-shaped labellum.

The following infraspecific taxa are accepted:

• S. cordigera subsp. azorica (Schltr.) Soó, 1927;
• S. cordigera subsp. cordigera L., 1763, P;
• S. cordigera subsp. cossyrensis (B.Baumann & H.Baumann) Kreutz, 2004;
• S. cordigera subsp. cretica B.Baumann & H.Baumann, 1999;
• S. cordigera subsp. gentilii C.Venhuis, P.Venhuis & Kreutz, 2007;
• S. cordigera subsp. lorenziana (H.Baumann & Künkele) Kreutz, 2004;
• S. cordigera subsp. lucana R.Lorenz & V.A.Romano, 2014.

Hybridizes with:

• S. lingua L., 1753 to produce S. × ambigua Rouy & E.G.Camus, 1892, P;
• S. neglecta De Not., 1844 to produce S. × godferyi A.Camus, 1926, P;
• S. olbia Verg., 1908 to produce S. × provincialis H.Baumann & Künkele, 1989, P;
• S. parviflora Parl., 1837 to produce S. × rainei E.G.Camus, 1908, P;
• S. vomeracea (Burm.f.) Briq., 1910 to produce S. × kelleri A.Camus, 1926, P.

Intergeneric hybridization is also possible with:

• Anacamptis laxiflora (Lam.) R.M.Bateman, Pridgeon & M.W.Chase, 1997 to produce × Serapicamptis nouletii (Rouy) H.Kretzschmar, Eccarius & H.Dietr., 2007, P;
• Anacamptis papilionacea (L.) R.M.Bateman, Pridgeon & M.W.Chase, 1997 to produce × Serapicamptis debeauxii (E.G.Camus) J.M.H.Shaw, 2005, P.

Photographs

Sources

• Kühn, R., Pedersen, H.Æ., & Cribb, P. (2020). Orchidées d’Europe et de Méditerranée (p. 342). Biotope.

• Rankou, H. (2011). Serapias cordigera (Europe assessment). The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species, 2011. https://www.iucnredlist.org/species/175962/7155510

• Tison, J.M., & de Foucault, B. (2014). Flora Gallica : Flore de France (p. 187). Biotope.