Platanthera hohuanshanensis S.S.Ying 2022
Photos by S S Ying and New Taxa and New Names 3: 14 S S Ying 2022
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Common Name or Meaning The Hohuan Mountain Platanthera
Flower Size .12 to .16" [3 to 4 mm] wide
Found in Taiwan in uplands grass and herb fields at elevations around 3050 meters as a medium sized, cold growing terrestrial with a tubular, ovoid to oblong, fleshy rootstock giving rise to 3, basal, oblong, acute, obtuse and slightly cordate below into a short tubular base leaves that blooms in the later summer an erect, stout, glabrous, slightly angular, 12 to 16" [30 to 40 cm] long, provided with a tubular, acute, brownish basal sheath and 3 to 4, lanceolate, gradually smaller above, acute bracts, densely 15 to 25 flowered inflorescence with ovate, acute, longer than the ovary floral bracts and carrying pale yellow flowers
"The species is characterized by its many pale yellow flowers (ca 15 to 25), 3-lobed lip; median lobe tongue-like to lanceolate, .32 to .4" [8 to 10 mm] long, .08 to 1.2" [2 to 3 mm] wide, acute at apex; the lateral lobes ovate-triangular, .12 to .16" [3 to 4 mm] long, .1 to .14" [2.5 to 3.5 mm wide, entire to few dentate at the margins." S S Ying 2022
Synonyms
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
New Taxa and New Names 3: 14 S S Ying 2022 photos fide
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