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SERAPIAS VOMERACEA  (N.L. Burm.) Briq.

Last updated 17/05/2013

 

Sparsely distributed in  the area; flowers from May to June in grassy places from 250 to 850m. Locally abundant near Fossombrone, sporadic in hillside meadows from M. Nerone to Acquapartita, and M. Catria. A single plant was found flowering in my garden in Urbino in 1995. In the past recorded by Federici/Serpieri (1868), by Cengia-Sambo (1929), and by Brilli-Cattarini (1957). Luciano Poggiani records it also for Fano near the river Metauro (1998).

I found a handsome group flowering near the Passo del Furlo on 11 May 2010. Domenico Rossi found a further 6 plants at the same site the following day.

On 25 May 2010 I found a single plant in Urbino, just outside the city's walls. As it grew in a rather conspicous place, I rightly feared for its destiny: it was picked the followed day and I found the discarded spike a few metres further. The spike had not yet withered and I managed to take a picture of it (see below).

2013: the group of plants near the Passo del Furlo is flowering abundantly again ithis year. An interesting new find this year is that of a plant growing on the industrial estate Bellocchi near Fano (16 May 2013).

 

Literature:

 

-BENIGNI, F., FABRIZI, Metella (2009), "Una ricca popolazione di Serapias vomeracea (Burm.f.) Briq. con presenza di Serapias parviflora Parl. alle Gola della Rossa (Ancona, Marche, Italia Centrale)", GIROS Notizie 41, p.34.

-BRILLI-CATTARINI, A.J.B. (1957), "Rinvenimenti floristici marchigiani. Seconda serie.", in Nuovo Giornale Botanico Italiano, pp. 117-41, Firenze (p.123).

-CENGIA-SAMBO, M. (1929), "Contributo alla Flora vascolare dell'Urbinate", in Nuovo Giorn. Bot. Ital., 35(4):425-506 (p.446).

 -CRESCENTINI, R. & J.M.I. KLAVER, Orchidee Spontanee della Provincia Peasro e Urbino, con osservazioni sulle specie delle Marche, Pesaro, 1997 (p.244).

-KLAVER, J.M.I., "Distribution of the Orchidaceae of the Province Pesaro-Urbino (Central-East Italy)", AHO Baden-Württemberg 23 (4), 1991, pp.557-747 (p.618-619)

-POGGIANI, L., "Serapias vomeracea",

http://www.lavalledelmetauro.org/standard.php?lingua=it&id_sezione=21&id_sottosezione=10&record=1563  (updated 15.11.2009)

-SERPIERI, A. & A. FEDERICI (1868), "Saggio di una flora dell'agro Urbinate ed epoca della fioritura di molte piante. Centuria I, II, III, IV, V", in Bullettino Metereologico di Urbino, fascicolo II, anno 1867, pp. 32-38, 48-56, Urbino (p.38).

 

Passo del Furlo (PU), 11/5/2010

 

Fossombrone (PU), 7/6/1992

 

Acquapartita (PU), 1/6/2008

Acquapartita (PU), 1/6/2008

 

Cerreto (PU), 13/5/2007 

 

Cerreto (PU), 13/5/2007 

Urbino (PU), 25/5/2010

 

Cerreto (PU), 13/5/2007