Platanthera × channellii Folsom 1984

Photo by © David McAdoo and The North Carolina Native Plant Society Website

Common Name Channell's Platanthera - in US Channell's Hybrid Fringed Orchid [American Botany Professor Vanderbilt 1900's]

Flower Size

Found in New Jersey, North Carolina, Tennessee, South Carolina, Alabama and Louisiana US as a medium to large sized, cold growing natural hybrid between P. ciliaris and P. cristata with a single striated stem carrying lanceoalte, unequal, diminishing in size above leaves that blooms in the later summer on a terminal, 20 to 30 flowered inflorescence carrying nearly sessile flowers.

Synonyms Blephariglottis × channellii (Folsom) Baumbach & Lückel 2009

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;

* ORQUIDEA (Méx.) 9(2): 344 Folsom 1984 drawing fide;

Schlechteriana Vol 4 No 4 1993; The

Wild Orchids of North America North of Mexico P M Brown 2003;

Orchidee (Hamburg) 60: 126 Baumbach & Lückel 2009 as Blephariglottis × channellii

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