Platanthera chiloglossa (Tang & F.T.Wang) K.Y.Lang 1994
Photo by Jin Xiaohua
Drawing by © Zang Taili and The Flora of China Website
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Common Name The Tongue-Shaped Lip Platanthera - In China Cha wa long she chun lan
Flower Size .4" [1 cm]
Found in Tibet (Zayü) to China in western Sichuan and northwestern Yunnan in forests and grasslands on slopes and slong gullies at elevations of 2500 to 3300 meters as a miniature to small sized, cold growing terrestrial with an erect to ascending, slightly stout, stem with 1 to 2 tubular, basal sheaths and carrying cauline, oblong-elliptic, basally clasping, acute leaves that blooms in the later summer on an erect, .8 to 4" [2 to 10 cm] long, to 10 flowered inflorescence with lanceolate, acuminate floral bracts with the basal ones longer than the flowers.
P chiloglossa is considered to be a synonym of P barkeriana but I have left them separate for now as they spur of P chiloglossa is so much shorter than the other and Chinese scholars keep them separate.
Synonyms *Habenaria chiloglossa Tang & F.T.Wang 1951
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
Acta Phytotax. Sin. 1: 63 Tang & F T Wang 1951 as Habenaria chiloglossa
*Vasc. Pl. Hengduan Mount. 2: 2523 K Y Lang 1994
Flora of China Vol 25: 1`03 Orchidaceae Zhengyi, Raven and Deyuan 2009;
Flora of China Illustrations Vol 25: 157 Zhengyi, Raven and Deyuan 2010 drawing fide;
Atlas of Native Orchids of China Vol 1 Jin Xiaohua, Li Jianwu and Ye Deping 2019 photo fide
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