Platanthera nanlingensis X.H.Jin & W.T.Jin 2015
Photo/TYPE Drawing by © X.H.Jin & W.T.Jin 2015
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Common Name The Nangling Platanthera
Flower Size
Found in Guangdong province of China in humid evergreen, broad leaved forests in rock cracks at elevations of 1000 to 1500 meters in elevation as a small sized, cool growing terrestrial with a fusiform, fleshy, long villose haired rootstock giving rise to an erect, prominently quadrangular, provided with 3 basal, tubular sheath stem carrying 2 to 5, scattered sessile, elliptic-lanceolate, basal one largest, subacute, leaves grading above into 3 to 4 sterile, linear-lanceolate, acuminate bracts that blooms in the later spring on an erect, cylindric, to 2" [5 cm] long, densely 25 to 30 flowered inflorescence with linear-lanceolate, acuminate, shorter than to subequal to the ovary floral bracts and carrying white flowers.
"Very similar to P minor, P kwangensis by having 1 to 3 widely spaced leaves that grade into 3 to 4 sterile bracts, one stigma, the middle sepal not ciliate and an entire lip. But easily distinguished by the densely flowered inflorescence the white flowers, the dorsal sepal not forming a hood, a .3" [7.5 mm] long, spur that is shorter to subequal to the ovary a .06" [11.5 mm] long, column and the presence of bursicles." X.H.Jin & W.T.Jin 2015
Synonyms
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
* Ann. Bot. Fenn. 52: 297 X.H.Jin & W.T.Jin 2015
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