Platanthera carnosilabris (Tang & F.T.Wang) X.H.Jin, Schuit. & W.T.Jin 2014

Photo by Jin Xiaohua

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Common Name The Fleshy Lip Platanthera

Flower Size

Found in eastern Nepal and northwestern Yunnan province of China in bamboo forests at elevations around 3200 meters sa a miniature to small sized, cold growing terrestrial with a slender, erect stem carrying bract-like leaflets and 2 leaves in the lower half and 2 to 3, oval leaves above that blooms in the later summer on an erect, .6 to 1.4" [ 1.5 to 3.5 cm] long, densely many flowered inflorescence with ovate, shorter than the ovary floral bracts.

Synonyms *Herminium carnosilabre Tang & F.T.Wang 1940

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;

Bull. Fan Mem. Inst. Biol., Bot. 10: 32 Tang & F.T.Wang 1940 as Herminium carnosilabre

*Molec. Phylogen. Evol. 77: 51 X.H.Jin, Schuit. & W.T.Jin 2014

Atlas of Native Orchids of China Vol 1 Jin Xiaohua, Li Jianwu and Ye Deping 2019 photo fide

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