Platanthera halconensis (Ames) Schltr. 1911

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Common Name The Halcon Platanthera

Flower Size

Found in the Philippines in open heath at elevations around 2400 to 2500 meters as a small to just medium sized, cold growing terrestrial with an erect stem carrying much reduced, cordate-ovate to lanceolate, acute leaves grading above into clasping, lanceolate, acute bracts that blooms in the fall on an erect, terminal, 4 to 5" [10 to 12.5 cm] long, loose, several flowered inflorescence with lanceoalte, acute, longer than the ovaries floral bracts and carring green flowers

The flowers of this species are similar to P angustata but considerably larger and different in detail

Synonyms *Habenaria halconensis Ames 1907

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;

* Repert. Spec. Nov. Regni Veg. 9: 212 Schlechter 1911

Philipp. J. Sci., C 2: 312 Ames 1907 as Habenaria halconensis

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