Platanthera chlorantha (Custer) Rchb. 1828 Photo courtesy of Pascal Pernot and the Orchids of France and Europe

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Common Name The Green Patanthera

Flower Size 3/4"

Found from Morocco, Spain, Portugal, France, Great Britain, Ireland, Belgium, Luxumbourgh, Netherlands, Denmark, Germany, Switzerland, Italy, Austria, Chech,Poland, Hungary, Yugoslavia, Albania, Greece, Turkey, Bulgaria, Romania, the Baltics, Norway, Sweden, Findland, Russia except northern Russia, as well as Corsica, Sardinia, Sicily, Cyprus, Lebanon and Israel as a medium sized, cool to cold growing terrestrial orchid with almost opposite, oblong-lanceolate, broadly elliptic or obovate leaves that blooms in the late spring and summer on an erect, terminal, 3/4 to 2' long, simply racemose, laxly many flowered inflorescence with fragrant flowers and is similar to P. bifolia except for the lax inflorescence and the flowers are less scented.

Synonyms Gymnadenia chlorantha (Custer) Ambrosi 1854; Habenaria chlorantha (Custer ex Rchb. f.) Bab. 1825; Habenaria montana (F.W.Schmidt) T.Durand & Schinz 1894; *Orchis chlorantha Custer 1870; Orchis montana F.W.Schmidt 1793; Orchis virescens Zollikofer 1829; Platanthera bifolia subsp. chlorantha (Custer) Rouy ?; Platanthera chlorantha var. grandiflora M.Schulze 1907; Platanthera montana Rchb. f 1851; Platanthera montana var. gselliana H.Baumann, Künkele & R.Lorenz 2002; Platanthera virescens Koch 1849; Satyrium latifolium Thouars 1882

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Orchids of Europe, North Africa and the Middle East Delforge 2005

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