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Platanthera bakeriana (King & Pantl.) Kraenzl. 1899

Photo by Š Peter O'Byrne and The Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria Website

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Common Name Baker's Platanthera [Kew Curator in later 1800's] - In China Pi Zhen Chun She Chun Lan

Flower Size .4" [1 cm]

Found in the Chinese Himalayas, the eastern Himalayas and Nepal in mixed broad-leaved forests at elevations of 2740 to 3350 meters as a medium sized, cold growing terrestrial with a fusiform tuber giving rise to an erect, glabrous stem with basal convolute, subacute, sheaths and carrying 3 to 5, distant, sessile, lower leaves oblong, subacute, basally broadly clasping, upper leaves are linear-lanceolate, gradually becoming smaller above that blooms in the late summer and early fall on an erect, terminal, glabrous, 3.2 to 4.8" [8 to 12 cm] long, laxly 6 to many flowered inflorescence with linear-lanceolate, subacute floral bracts carrying fragrant flowers.

P chiloglossa is considered to be a synonym of P barkeriana but I have left them separate for now as P chiloglossa has a much shorter spur and Chinese scholars keep them separate.

Synonyms *Habenaria bakeriana King & Pantl.1896; Platanthera lancilabris Schltr. 1921; Platanthera longiglandula K.Y.Lang 1982; Platanthera silaensis Hand.-Mazz. 1936

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;

J. Asiat. Soc. Bengal, Pt. 2, Nat. Hist. 65: 132 King & Pantling 1896 as Habenaria bakeriana

* Orchid. Gen. Sp. 1: 632 Kraenzlin 1899

The Orchids of Sikkim-Himalaya Part 1: 314 King & Pantling 1898 as Habenaria bakeriana drawing fide;

Repert. Spec. Nov. Regni Veg. 17: 25 Schlechter 1921 as P lancilabris;

Ann. Hist.-Nat. Mus. Natl. Hung. 26: 3587 Soo 1929

Symb. Sin. 7: 1331 Hand.-Mazz. 1936 as P silaensis;

Acta Phytotax. Sin. 1: 63 Tang & F T Wang 1951 as H chiloglossa;

Encyclopedia of Cultivated Orchids Hawkes 1965;

Indian Orchids: Guide to Identification and Culture Pradhan 1976 drawing fide;

Acta Phytotax. Sin. 20: 188 K Y Lang 1982 as P longiglandula;

Vasc. Pl. Hengduan Mount. 2: 2523 K Y Lang 1994 as P chiloglossa;