Image of Heart-flowered serapias

Description:

CR.: srcolika kukavica - Habitat: dry grassland, among bushes, flat terrain, full sun, exposed to direct rain, average precipitations 800-900 mm/year, average temperature 13-14 deg C, elevation 30 m (100 feet, sub-Mediterranean phytogeographical region. - Substratum: soil. - Comment: Growing in a group of about 10 plants. A rare fund on Cap Kamenjak. Given coordinates are not precise. - Protected species according to Zakon o zatiti prirode (Narodne novine, broj 70/05 i 139/08) of Croatia and Pravilnik o proglaavanju divjih svojti zatićenim in strogo zatićenim. - Ref.: (1) R. Domac, Flora Hrvatske (Flora of Croatia) in Croat language, kolska knjiga (1993) p 464. (2) H.Baumann, S. Kuenkele, R.Lorenz, Orchideen Europas, Ulmer (2006), p 273. (3) V. Hrak, S. Brana, Z. Sedlar, I. Pejić, Morphometric and molecular (RAPD) analysis of six Serapias taxa from Croatia, Springer (2011), Biologia, Vol.66, no.1, pp 55-63. (4) N.Vuković. S.Brana, B. Mitić, Orchid diversity of the Kamenjak (Istria, Croatia), (2011), Acta Bot. Croat, vol. 70, no. 1., pp 23-40. (5) Prof. V Hrak, University of Zagreb, Department of Botany, personal communication (2012).