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Serapias istriaca
Istria Tongue Orchid
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Photographer: Dr. Amadej Trnkoczy
ID: 0000 0000 1115 1060 (2015-11-10)Copyright © 2015 Dr. Amadej Trnkoczy
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date of photo May 17, 2012
latitude 44.78331 longitude 13.91111
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East shore of peninsula Kamenjak, about 1 km south of Premantura; slightly west of the main dirt road along the peninsula, near a bay (Istria, Croatia)notes Slo.: istrski ralovec, CR: istarska kukavica - syn.: Serapias neglecta subsp. apulica Landw. - Habitat: : Stony grassland, sandy, skeletal calcareous soil; open, almost flat terrain, full sun, average temperatures 13-14 deg C, average precipitation 800-900 mm/year, elevation 20 m (65 feet), Mediterranean phytogeographical region. Substratum: sandy soli. Comment: Species of the genus Serapias are essentially plants of Mediterranean Sea region. Among them Serapias istriaca represents a rare, narrow-endemic named by Istria peninsula in Croatia, northwest Adriatic sea. Recent morphometric as well as molecular research showed that it is a well-established species (Ref.:2). It flourishes only on south part of Istria peninsula and neighboring island Lošinj and on the sea shore of northwest Greece. Species of genus Serapias are strange, almost bizarre looking orchids. To recognize plants of this genus is simple because of their unusual shape of flowers, however, to distinguish them to species level is a much more difficult task. Serapias istriaca doesn't grow in Slovenian Adriatic Sea shore region, so the only our member of this genus remains Serapias vomeraca and also this plant is a rare find in Slovenia. Ref.: (1) http://hirc.botanic.hr/fcd/DetaljiFrame.aspx?IdVrste=27626&taxon=Serapias+istriaca+Perko (2) V. Hršak, S. Brana, Z. Sedlar, I. Pejić, Morphometric and molecular (RAPD) analysis of six Serapias taxa from Croatia, J. Biologia, Vol. 66, 1. (2011), pp 55-63. http://link.springer.com/article/10.2478%2Fs11756-010-0132-5camera Canon G11, 6.1-30mm/f2.8-4.5
contributor's ID # Bot_618/2012_IMG9335 photo category: Plant - annual/perennial
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