Platanthera transversa (Suksd.) R.M.Bateman 2003

Photo courtesy of © Bill Temple

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Common Name The Crossed Piperia [refers to the long horizontal spur] - The Flat Spur Piperia

Flower Size

Found in British Columbia, Washington, Oregon and California in dry open mixed, coniferous woods at elevations of sea level to 2100 meters as a medium sized, cold growing, slender terrestrial with an ovate to almost oblong round tuber giving rise to an erect, clubshaped basally stem carrying 2 basal, lanceolate, withering before antheses that blooms in the later spring through summer on an erect, provided with scattered, narrow, acute scales, 4 to 8" [10 to 20 cm] long, fairly dense, to 90 flowered inflorescence with lanceolate, acute, shorter than the ovary floral bracts.

Synonyms Piperia transversa Suksd. 1906

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;

Allg. Bot. Z. Syst. 12: 43 Suksd. 1906 Piperia transversa

* Bot. J. Linn. Soc. 142: 21 R M Bateman 2003

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