Orchidaceae

Tongue-orchid

Serapias lingua L.

Family: Orchidaceae
Genus: Serapias

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Common names

By language (8)

arz: سيرابيس لينجوا
Chinese: 长药兰
Dutch: Gewone tongorchis
English: Tongue-orchid
French: Sérapias petite langue
German: Einschwieliger Zungenstendel
Italian: Serapide lingua
lah: جیب رنگرتی

Synonyms

Damasonium lingua (L.) L.
Helleborine lingua (L.) Pers.
Orchis lingua (L.) Scop.
Serapias lingua var. oxyglottis (Willd.) E.G.Camus, Bergon & A.Camus
Serapiastrum lingua (L.) A.A.Eaton

Photos

Photo: Francesc Xavier Yuste Medina, User: Xyuste, CC BY-SA 4.0, from Wikimedia Commons
Photo: Maarten Sepp, CC BY-SA 4.0, from Wikimedia Commons
Photo: Maarten Sepp, CC BY-SA 4.0, from Wikimedia Commons
Photo: Hans Hillewaert, CC BY-SA 3.0, from Wikimedia Commons
Photo: Hans Hillewaert, CC BY-SA 3.0, from Wikimedia Commons
Photo: Hans Hillewaert, CC BY-SA 3.0, from Wikimedia Commons
Photo: Hans Hillewaert, CC BY-SA 3.0, from Wikimedia Commons
Photo: luis Nunes Alberto, CC BY-SA 3.0, from Wikimedia Commons
Photo: Alastair Rae from London, United Kingdom, CC BY-SA 2.0, from Wikimedia Commons
Photo: Nico&Co, CC BY-SA 3.0, from Wikimedia Commons
Photo: JU Kamenjak, CC BY-SA 4.0, from Wikimedia Commons
Photo: Ziegler175, CC BY-SA 3.0, from Wikimedia Commons

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Sources: classification, synonyms from World Flora Online Plant List (2026-06, CC0 1.0); common names, popularity from Wikidata (2026-10-26, CC0 1.0). About our plant data.