Platanthera brevicalcarata Hayata 1911
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Common Name The Short Spur Platanthera - In China Duan Ju She Chun Lan
Flower Size .4" [1 cm]
Found in southern Japan and Taiwan in coniferous, mixed broad-leaved forests and grasslands at elevations of 1600 to 3700 meters as a mini-miniature to small sized, cold growing terrestrial with an elongate, creeping, stoloniferous rootstock giving rise to an erect to ascending stem with 1 to 2, basal, tubular sheaths and carrying 1 to 2, basal, widely spaced, oblong to elliptic, acute, cuneate below into the clasping base leaves that blooms in the later spring and early summer on an erect, slender, 1.2 to 2" [3 to 5 cm] long, 3 to 8 flowered inflorescence with 1 to 4, foliaceous, lanceolate bracts and lanceolate, as long to slightly exceeding the length of the ovary floral bracts.
Synonyms Habenaria brevicalcarata (Hayata) Masam. 1968; Platanthera brevicalcarata subsp. yakumontana (Masam.) Masam. 1964; Platanthera yakumontana Masam. 1934; Tulotis brevicalcarata (Hayata) Efimov 2008 publ. 2009
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
* J. Coll. Sci. Imp. Univ. Tokyo 30(1): 350 Hayata 1911 Mem. Fac. Sci. Taihoku Imp. Univ. 11(Bot., 4): 574 Masam. 1934 as Platanthera yakumontana
J. Geobot. 12: 98 Masam. 1964 as P brevicalcarata subsp yakumontana
J. Geobot. 16: t. 14 Masam. 1968 Habenaria brevicalcarata nom. illeg.
Novosti Sist. Vyssh. Rast. 40: 50 Efimov 2008 publ. 2009 as Tulotis brevicalcarata;
Flora of China Vol 25: 102 Zhengyi, Raven & Deyuan 2009;
Flora of China Vol 25: 58 Illustrations Zhengyi, Raven & Deyuan 2010 drawing fide
Flora of China Vol 25: 152 Illustrations Zhengyi, Raven & Deyuan 2010 drawing fide ;
Atlas of Native Orchids of China Vol 1 Jin Xiaohua, Li Jianwu and Ye Deping 2019 photo fide
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