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Tongue Orchid
(Genus Serapias)
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Serapias is a genus of terrestrial orchids that can be found all over southern Europe to Asia Minor. The genus was named after Serapis, a syncretic Hellenistic-Egyptian god in Antiquity. Serapias have spurless flowers and usually go dormant during the winter seasons.
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Tongue Orchid
(Serapias lingua)
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Serapias lingua, commonly known as tongue-orchid or the tongue Serapias, is a species of orchid native to the Mediterranean.
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Lesser Tongue-Orchid
(Serapias parviflora)
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Serapias parviflora, the small-flowered tongue-orchid, is a species of orchid native to the Mediterranean Basin and the Atlantic coast of Europe.
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Large Tongue Orchid
(Cryptostylis subulata)
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Cryptostylis subulata, known as the large tongue orchid grows in south eastern Australia. It was given its current name by H.G. Reichenbach in 1871, originally described by Labillardiere as Malaxis subulata in 1806 from Tasmania. The specific epithet subulata refers to the duck like shape of the flower's labellum. Sometimes this plant is known as the duck orchid, but this may cause confusion with the flying duck orchid.
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Tongue Orchid
(Dendrobium linguiforme)
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Dockrillia linguiformis, commonly known as the button orchid, tongue orchid or tick orchid, is a plant in the orchid family Orchidaceae and is endemic to eastern Australia. It grows on trees or on rocks, with wiry, prostrate stems, prostrate, fleshy leaves and spikes of up to twenty white to cream-coloured flowers in early spring.
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Small Tongue-Orchid
(Cryptostylis leptochila)
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Cryptostylis leptochila, commonly known as the small tongue orchid, is a species of orchid that is endemic to eastern Australia. It has one to a few broad leaves and up to fifteen green flowers with a dark red labellum that has a black stripe and rows of black dots either side of the stripe. As with others in the genus, it is pollinated by male ichneumon wasps.
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Scarce Tongue-Orchid
(Serapias neglecta)
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Serapias neglecta, the scarce tongue-orchid, is a species of orchid endemic to southern Europe.
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Eastern Tongue Orchid
(Serapias orientalis)
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Serapias orientalis is a species of orchid occurring from the east-central and eastern Mediterranean to the western Transcaucasus.
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Long-tongued Shell Orchid
(Pterostylis dolichochila)
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Pterostylis dolichochila, commonly known as the long-tongued shell orchid, is a species of orchid endemic to southern Australia. As with similar orchids, the flowering plants differ from those which are not flowering. The non-flowering plants have a rosette of leaves but the flowering plants have a single flower with leaves on the flowering spike. This greenhood has a green and white flower with reddish-brown stripes and a sharply pointed dorsal sepal.
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Leafless Tongue Orchid
(Cryptostylis hunteriana)
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Cryptostylis hunteriana, commonly known as the leafless tongue-orchid grows in south eastern Australia. It is a rare species with a ROTAP rating of 3VC-
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Curled-tongue Shell Orchid
(Pterostylis rogersii)
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Carian Tongue Orchid
(Serapias orientalis ssp. carica)
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