Platanthera replicata (A.Rich.) Ackerman 1997

Drawing by © Mark Nir

Common Name The Folded Back Platanthera

Flower Size

Found in Cuba as a large sized terrestrial with an erect, slenderstem carrying a few, green, linear-lanceolate, acute, conduplicate, rapidly decreasing in size above leaves that blooms on an erect, terminal, to 6" [15 cm] long, densely many flowered inflorescence

Synonyms Gymnadeniopsis replicata (A.Rich.) Efimov 2008 publ. 2009; *Habenaria replicata A.Rich. 1850;

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Studies in the Family Orchidaceae Fascile 4 Ames 1910 as Habenaria replicata; Orchidaceae Antillanae Nir 2000 drawing fide

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