!Bhutanthera albomarginata (King & Pant.) Renz 2001
Plant and Flowers in situ Sikkim
Photos by Cedric Basset © and gardenbreizh.com
Photo by © India Mike.com
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Common Name or Meaning The White Margin Bhutanthera
Flower Size 1.7 to .2" [4 to 5 mm]
Found in the Chinese Himalayas, eastern Himalayas, Bhutan and Nepal on yak grazed slopes at elevations of 3720 to 4270 meters as a miniature sized, cold growing terrestrial with depressed-globose tubers giving rise to a stout, basally sheathed, glabrous, stem carrying 2, remote, unequal, orbicular-elliptic to oblong, obtuse, narrowing below into the basally clasping leaves that blooms in the later summer and early fall on an erect, terminal, glabrous, .4 to 1.4" [1 to 3.5 cm] long, subdensely 5 to 20 flowered inflorescence with a large, leaf-like, lanceolate, spreading floral bracts.
Synonyms *Habenaria albomarginata King & Pantl. 1898; Peristylus albomarginatus (King & Pant.) K.Y.Lang 1996
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; The Orchids of Sikkim-Himalaya Part 1 King & Pantling 1898 as Habenaria albo-marginatum drawing ok; Rudolf Schlechter Die Orchideen Band 1C lieferung 40 pg 2492 - 2564 Brieger 2000; Orchids of Bhutan Pearce & Cribb 2002; Orchids of India A Glimpse Misra 2007 drawing ok; A Century of New Orchid Records in Bhutan Royal Government of Bhutan 2017 as Platanthera albomarginata Drawing/photo fide;
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