Platanthera bhutanica K.Inoue 1986
Plant and Flowers in situ Arunachal Pradesh
Photos by © Magnus Liden
Collection sheet by © Jany Renz and The Kew Website
Common Name The Bhutan Platanthera
Flower Size 1/2 to .8" [1.2 to 2 cm]
Found in Arunachal Pradesh state of India, Bhutan and Sikkim at elevations of 3350 to 3960 meters as a small sized, cold growing terrestrial with a stoloniferous rhizome and a short tuber giving rise to an erect, 12" [30 cm] long, stem enveloped basally by overlapping, tubular, lanceolate, acute sheaths and carrying 3, basal ones largest, elliptic, acute, undulate margined, gradually narrowing below in to the petiolate base leaves that blooms in the summer on a terminal, erect, laxly 5 to 6 flowered, rachis, 3.2" to 3.6" [8 to 9 cm] long inflorescence with lanceolate floral bracts with the lowermost longer than the flowers.
Kew has this one with P curvata as a synonym but I have left them separate pending more research.
Synonyms
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; The Orchids of Bhutan Pearce & Cribb 2002;
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