Platanthera deergongensis X.H. Jin, Jian W. Li & D.L. Lin, 2024

Photo by © Dongliang lin and Lyue Zhang and Phytotaxa 646 [2]: 203-212 X.H. Jin, J.W. Li & D.L. Lin 2024

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Common Name The Deergong Platanthera [A town near where the type was found]

Flower Size .16" [4 mm] wide

Found in Xizang Automonous region of China in humid alpine conifer forests at elevations around 2800 meters as a mini-miniature to just medium size sized, cold growing terrestrial or epiphyte with an erect, terete stems enveloped by 2 tubular sheaths at the base and carrying a single, basal, elliptic, basally contracted into a petiole-like amplexcaul sheath, apex obtuse rounded, adaxially green with bottle green reticulate veins, abaxially pale green, midvein prominent leaf with 3, long-elliptic, foliaceous, strerile bracts that blooms in the later summer and early fall on an erect, rachis 2 to 5.2"" [5 to 13 cm] long, secund, densely to 30 flowered inflorescence with lanceolate, acute, longer than the ovary floral bracts and carrying white flowers.

"Morphologically, Platanthera deergongensis is similar to P. contigua, but differs from it by the large plants, the reflexed petals, the white lip, the connective is obtuse to truncate and not protruding from the anther." X.H. Jin, J.W. Li & D.L. Lin, 2024

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References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;

* Phytotaxa 646 [2]: 206 X.H. Jin, J.W. Li & D.L. Lin 2024 Photo fide

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