Platanthera tescamnis Sheviak & W.F.Jenn 2006
Photo by © Dan & Raymond and their The Native Orchids Flickr Photo Website
TYPE Drawing by © by Carolyn Craford and Rhodora 108: 20 Sheviak & W.F.Jenn 2006
LATE 
Common Name The Desert Stream Platanthera - The Green Bog Orchid
Flower Size .6" [1.5 cm]
Found in Colorado, Utah, Nevada, California and Arizona in damp meadows, along springs and seeps or on hillsides under shrubs or on roadbanks at elevations of 1300 to 3200 meters as a medium to large sized, cold growing terrestrial with a lanceolate-fusiform tuberoid giving rise to an erect stem carrying 4 to 9, basal 1/10 to 1/2 of stem bearing 3 to 7, ascending to spreading, ovate to linear-lanceolate to broadly to linear elliptic leaves, rather abruptly reduced above into 0 to 3 bracts that blooms in the late spring and summer on an erect, 6 to 24.4" [15 to 61 cm] long, 1/3 to 1/2 height of plant, laxly to densely flowered inflorescencemany flowered inflorescence
Distinguished from P sparsiflora by the small column with rostellum lobes that position the viscidia above the orifice of the spur.
Synonyms Limnorchis tescamnis (Sheviak & W.F.Jenn.) P.M.Br., S.L.Stewart & Gamarra 2009
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
* Rhodora 108: 20 Sheviak & W.F.Jenn 2006;
N. Amer. Native Orchid J. 15: 78 P.M.Br., S.L.Stewart & Gamarra 2009 as Limnorchis tescamnis
Orchid Digest Vol 74 #2 2010 photo fide;
AOS Bulletin Vol 86 # 3 2017 photo fide
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