Platanthera papuana Schltr. 1911

Drawing by © Schlechter and The Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria Website

Collection sheet Drawing by © Jany Renz and The Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria Website

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Common Name The Papuan Platanthera

Flower Size

Found in Papua New Guinea in humus of forests at elevations around 1200 to 2000 meters as a small to medium sized, warm to cold growing terrestrial with a thickened, fleshy, villous rhizome giving rise to a single, basal, erect, acuminate, cuneate below into the narrowly petiolate base leaf and 1 to 2, cauline, distant, erect-patentovate, acuminate, cordate-amplexicaule base leaves that blooms in the fall on an erect termianal, to 10" [to 25 cm] long, laxly several flowered inflorescence

Synonyms

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; *The Orchidaceae of German New Guinea Schlechter 1911 drawing fide

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