Platanthera epiphytica Aver. & Efimov 2006
Photo/TYPE Drawing by © L Averyanov and Efimov and Rheedea 16: 10 Aver. & Efimov 2006
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Common NameThe Epiphytic Platanthera
Flower Size .64" [1.6 cm]
Found in southern Vietnam in mossy primary, wet cloud forests at elevations around 2300 meters as a small sized, cold growing epiphyte with attenuate, fusiform tubers giving rise to either a single, radical, broadly ovate to broadly elliptic, attenuate at the base into the distinct petiolate base leaf or an erect floriferous stem with 2 basal sheaths and above, 1 to 2, distant, deep green, glabrous, fleshy, leathery, glossy, sessile, ovate to narrowly ovate leaves that blooms in the late summer and early fall on an erect, terminal, to 8.8" [22 cm] long, several flowered inflorescene with narrowly ovate, acute floral bracts
"This species is closely related to Platanthera angustilabris described from Thailand but differs in much shorter leaves and much longer spur. Both species have similar ecology and form a distinct group within the Sect. Platanthera. Separate and not confluent stigma lobes and ligulate lip (not broadening at the base) indicate close affinity of these plants with the type species of the genus – P. bifolia." Aver. & Efimov 2006
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References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
* Rheedea 16: 10 Aver. & Efimov 2006
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