Platanthera komarovii Schltr. 1918
Photos by V S Volkotrub
ISOTYPE Collection Sheet by V Komarov
LATE
Common Name Komarov's Platanthera [Russian Collector of the Isotype 1900's]
Flower Size
Found in Japan, Korea, Kuril Is., northeastern China and Primorye territory of southeastern Russia as a medium sized, cold growing terrrestrial with a glabrous, erect, strict to substrict stem carrying 2 to 3, distant, lower most oblong to elliptic, obtuse, basally rotund, the upper ones, lanceolate-ligulate, aubacute to acute, much smaller, leaves that blooms in the late sp[ring on a terminal, erect, usually 8" [20 cm] long, strict, laxly 6 to 15 flowered inflorescence with lanceolate to linear-lanceolate, acute, lower flowers larger, upper flowers smaller
"The flowers are similar in size to P mandarinorum but differ in the much more vigorous growth, the shape of the petals and lobes and the drooping , shorter, curved spur. P minor has a similar spur but significantly less curved, but differs in the much more vigorous growth, the longer more extended petals and labellum, and the much broader anther connetive tissue." Schlechter 1918
Synonyms Platanthera cornu-bovis Nevski 1935; Platanthera mandarinorum var cornu-bovis [Nevski] Kitag 1979;
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
Fl. URSS 4: 752 Nevski 1935 as P_ cornu-bovis
* Repert. Spec. Nov. Regni Veg. 15: 210 Schlechter 1918
Neolin. Fl. Manshur.: 199 Kitag. 1979 as P mandarinorum var cornu-bovis
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