Serapias politisiiRenz

WFO wfo-0000309502 Accepted WFO 2026-06 7 photographs CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–g · 3 observations

This species has been photographed under an open licence only 3 times, so some figures below are different views of the same plant, taken on the same day, rather than different individuals. They are usually different parts of it: the leaf, the flower, the bark.

Serapias politisii, photographed by Ben Costamagna
fig. a Ben Costamagna, CC BY 4.0 / 2022-04-19 / obs. 205704817
Serapias politisii, photographed by Ben Costamagna
fig. b Ben Costamagna, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 205704836
Serapias politisii, photographed by Ben Costamagna
fig. c Ben Costamagna, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 205700190
Serapias politisii, photographed by Ben Costamagna
fig. d Ben Costamagna, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 205704851
Serapias politisii, photographed by Ben Costamagna
fig. e Ben Costamagna, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 205700202
Serapias politisii, photographed by Ben Costamagna
fig. f Ben Costamagna, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 205700171
Serapias politisii, photographed by Todd Boland
fig. g Todd Boland, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 120496300

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Native range 8 botanical countries

Regions where Serapias politisii is native: Cyprus, East Aegean Is., Türkiye, Albania, Greece, Italy, NW. Balkan Pen., Türkiye-in-Europe CyprusEast Aegean Is.TürkiyeAlbaniaGreeceItalyNW. Balkan Pen.Türkiye-in-Europe
Native distribution of Serapias politisii, after Kew’s World Checklist of Vascular Plants. Introduced, extinct and doubtful records are excluded, so this is where the plant is from, not everywhere it now grows.
RegionTDWG codeContinent
Albania ALB EUROPE
Greece GRC
Italy ITA
NW. Balkan Pen. YUG
Türkiye-in-Europe TUE
Cyprus CYP ASIA-TEMPERATE
East Aegean Is. EAI
Türkiye TUR

Region boundaries approximated from Natural Earth (public domain) and mapped to TDWG World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions (WGSRPD) level-3 botanical countries (Brummitt 2001). Indicative, not the official WGSRPD geometry.

Also published as 6 synonyms

A synonym is not an error. It is a record of botanists disagreeing, in print, about where this plant belongs. Each of these was somebody’s considered answer.

  • Serapias aphroditae P.Delforge
  • Serapias bergonii subsp. aphroditae (P.Delforge) Kreutz
  • Serapias bergonii subsp. politisii (Renz) Kreutz
  • Serapias bergonii var. aphroditae (P.Delforge) H.Baumann & R.Lorenz
  • Serapias bergonii var. politisii (Renz) H.Baumann & R.Lorenz
  • Serapias mastiana P.Delforge

Sourcesevery claim on this page

  1. World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
  2. iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.
  3. Kew, World Checklist of Vascular Plants (WCVP v16). native distribution by TDWG level-3 botanical country, and life form. CC BY 3.0. Retrieved 2026-06-04.

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