Serapias lingua L., 1753
Common names
- 🇬🇧 Tongue-orchid
- 🇫🇷 Sérapias langue, Sérapias à languette
Taxonomy
- Kingdom: Plantae
- Clade: Tracheophytes
- Clade: Angiosperms
- Clade: Monocots
- Order: Asparagales
- Family: Orchidaceae
- Subfamily: Orchidoideae
- Tribe: Orchideae
- Subtribe: Orchidinae
- Genus: Serapias
- Species: Serapias lingua
Presence
Present.
Conservation status
- Red List (Metropolitan France): LC Least Concern
- Red List (Europe): LC Least Concern
Notes
The following infraspecific taxa are accepted:
- S. lingua subsp. lingua L., 1753, P;
- S. lingua subsp. oranensis Kreutz, Ait-Hamm., Babali, Miara & Rebbas, 2013;
- S. lingua subsp. stenopetala (Maire & T.Stephenson) Maire & A.Weiller, 1959;
- S. lingua subsp. tunetana B.Baumann & H.Baumann, 2005.
Hybridizes with:
- S. cordigera L., 1763 to produce S. × ambigua Rouy & E.G.Camus, 1892, P;
- S. neglecta De Not., 1844 to produce S. × oxyglottis Willd., 1805, P (het. syn. S. × meridionalis E.G.Camus, 1892);
- S. parviflora Parl., 1837 to produce S. × todaroi Tineo, 1846, P;
- S. vomeracea (Burm.f.) Briq., 1910 to produce S. × intermedia Forest. ex F.W.Schultz, 1851, P.
Intergeneric hybridization is also possible with:
- Anacamptis coriophora (L.) R.M.Bateman, Pridgeon & M.W.Chase, 1997 to produce × Serapicamptis duffortii (E.G.Camus) H.Kretzschmar, Eccarius & H.Dietr., 2007, P;
- Anacamptis laxiflora (Lam.) R.M.Bateman, Pridgeon & M.W.Chase, 1997 to produce × Serapicamptis timbalii (K.Richt.) H.Kretzschmar, Eccarius & H.Dietr., 2007, P;
- Anacamptis morio subsp. morio (L.) R.M.Bateman, Pridgeon & M.W.Chase, 1997 to produce × Serapicamptis capitata (E.G.Camus) H.Kretzschmar, Eccarius & H.Dietr., 2007, P;
- Anacamptis morio subsp. picta (Loisel.) Jacquet & Scappat., 2003 to produce × Serapicamptis correvonii (E.G.Camus & A.Camus) J.M.H.Shaw, 2005, P;
- Anacamptis papilionacea (L.) R.M.Bateman, Pridgeon & M.W.Chase, 1997 to produce × Serapicamptis barlae (K.Richt.) J.M.H.Shaw, 2005, P;
- Anacamptis pyramidalis (L.) Rich., 1817 to produce × Serapicamptis forbesii Godfery, 1921, P;
- Dactylorhiza sambucina (L.) Soó, 1962 to produce × Serapirhiza sambucinolingua (Barla) Garay & H.R.Sweet, 1969, P.
Photographs
Sources
Kühn, R., Pedersen, H.Æ., & Cribb, P. (2020). Orchidées d’Europe et de Méditerranée (p. 354). Biotope.
Rankou, H. (2011). Serapias lingua (Europe assessment). The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species, 2011. https://www.iucnredlist.org/species/176034/7179928
Tison, J.M., & de Foucault, B. (2014). Flora Gallica : Flore de France (p. 187). Biotope.