Platanthera florentii Franch. & Sav. 1878

Collection sheet by © Kew

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Common Name Florent's Platanthera

Flower Size .4" [1 cm]

Found in Japan in montane forests as a medium sized, cold growing terrestrial with a horizontal, oblique tuber giving rise to an erect stem carrying 2, subopposite, basal, rotund to ovate, acute, more or less undulate leaves that blooms in the later summer on an erect, terminal, 8 to 16" [20 to 40 cm ] long, slightly angled, provided with leaf-like, small, broadly lanceolate to subulate bracts, rachis short, laxly 6 to 8 flowered inflorescence with subulate, with shorter than the ovary floral bracts and carrying green flowers

"Rather closely allied to the North American P hookeri from which it differs by having a horizontally creeping rhizome, a foliated scape, bracts shorter than the ovary, smaller flowers and a spur nearly twice as long as the ovary." Takeda 1910

Synonyms Platanthera listeroides Takeda 1910

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;

*Enum. Pl. Jap. 2: 514 Franch & Sav. 1878

Bot. Mag. (Tokyo) 24: 109 Takeda 1910 as Platanthera listeroides

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