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Orchid Species: Serapias grandiflora

Kew currently accepted name is Cephalanthera longifolia

Serapias grandiflora is an orchid species identified by Oeder in 1767. Culture information and photos for this orchid are commonly detailed under the currently accepted name of Cephalanthera longifolia.
Genus
Serapias (Srps.)
Grex
grandiflora
Parents
Species
Author
Oeder
Year
1767
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ORIGIN: From Great Britain, Ireland, Norway, Sewden, Denmark, Spain, Portugal, France, Balaeric Islands, Corsica, Sardinia, Scicily, Italy, Switzerland, Germany, Belgium, Netherlands, Czechloslavakia, Hungary, Poland, Romania, Bulgaria, Albania, Yuogoslavia, Greece, Cyprus, Turkey, Lebanon, Israel, Jordan, Algeria, Morocco, Tunisia, Ukraine, Western Russia, Central Russia, Kazakastan, Kirgistan, Uzbekistan, Iran, Afghanistan, China, eastern Himalayas, Nepal, Pakistan, western Himalayas and Bhutan found in deciduous woodlands and scrubby margins of woodlands as well as on sand dunes and open pine woods in calcareous soils at elevations of 2250 to 3100 meters.

DESCRIPTION: A medium sized, cold to cool growing terrestrial with a densely leaf stem with 2 to 4 basal leaf sheaths that are white tipped green and carrying dark green, linear-lanceolate, plicate, ribbed leaves that blooms in the spring through early summer on an erect, to 24 [to 60 cm] long, racemose, loosely many [10 to 20] flowered inflorescence.

FLOWER SIZE: About 3/4 inch [to 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 alpicola 1938 Fukuy.
Add+ Cephalanthera Ceph longifolia 1888 (L.) Fritsch
Add+ Helleborine Helleborine longifolia 1794 (L.) Moench
Add+ Limodorum Limo acuminatum 1891 (Wall. ex Lindl.) Kuntze
Add+ Serapias Srps alba 1796 (Crantz) Salisb.
Add+ Serapias Srps ensifolia 1784 (L.f.) Murray
Add+ Serapias Srps lonchophyllum 1782 L.f.
Add+ Serapias Srps nivea 1787 Vill.
Add+ Serapias Srps pallida 1814 Wahlenb.
Add+ Serapias Srps xiphophyllum 1782 Ehrh. ex L.f.
Add+ Epipactis Epcts grandiflora 1795 (Schltr.) A.A.Eaton
Add+ Cephalanthera Ceph angustifolia 1887 Simonk.
Add+ Cephalanthera Ceph conferta 2005 (B.Baumann & H.Baumann) Kreutz
Add+ Cephalanthera Ceph elegans 1919 Schltr.
Add+ Cephalanthera Ceph ensifolia 1817 Rich.
Add+ Cephalanthera Ceph grandiflora 1822 Gray
Add+ Cephalanthera Ceph lonchophylla 1851 Rchb.f. in H.G.L.Reichenbach
Add+ Cephalanthera Ceph mairei 1919 Schltr.
Add+ Cephalanthera Ceph maravignae 1844 Tineo in G.Gussone
Add+ Cephalanthera Ceph pallens 1817 Hohen.
Add+ Cephalanthera Ceph shizuoi 1936 F.Maek.
Add+ Cephalanthera Ceph taiwaniana 1988 S.S.Ying
Add+ Cephalanthera Ceph thomsonii 1876 Rchb.f.
Add+ Cephalanthera Ceph xiphophyllum 1851 Rchb.f. in H.G.L.Reichenbach
Add+ Cymbidium Cym xiphophyllum 1800 (Ehrh. ex L.f.) Sw.
Add+ Epipactis Epcts ensifolia 1795 F.W.Schmidt
Add+ Epipactis Epcts grandifolia 1785 All.
Add+ Epipactis Epcts pallens 1805 Sw.
Add+ Epipactis Epcts pallida 1800 Sw.
Add+ Epipactis Epcts xiphophylla 1805 (Ehrh. ex L.f.) Sw.
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