Platanthera longibracteata Lindl. 1835

Collection Sheet by N Wallich

LATE EARLY

Common Name The Long Bracted Platanthera

Flower Size

Found in Myanmar as a large sized, warm growing growing terrestrial with a stout, erect, leafy throughout stem carrying, linear-oblong, middle ones longest, acuminate leaves that blooms in the late summer and early fall on an erect, racemose, 24" [30 cm] long, several flowered inflorescence with longer than the flowers floral bracts.

CAUTION!! I have no way of verifying this determination so please use with caution!!!!

Synonyms

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;

* Gen. Sp. Orchid. Pl.: 293 Lindley 1835

Fl. Brit. India 6: 166 Hooker 1890 as Habenaria longibracteata nom. illeg.

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