Platanthera brevifolia (Greene) Senghas 1973
Photos by © Julio Valdez Partida
Photos by © Russ Kleinman, Bill Norris, Kelly Kindscher, & Al Wheeler and The Vascular Plants of the Gila Wilderness Website
Drawing by © Jorge Roberto González Tamayo and Las Orquideas del Occidente de Mexico Vol 1: 241 Jorge Roberto González Tamayo y Lizbeth Hernández Hernández 2010
Common Name The Short Leaved Platanthera - in US The Short Leaves Rein Orchid
Flower Size .4 to .8” [1 to 2 cm] long
Found in New Mexico US, and northern Mexico in oak and pine/oak forests at elevations of 2300 to 2400 metrs as a small to medium sized, cold growing terrestrial with an erect stem carrying lanceolate, acute, basally clasping leaves that sometimes are so short to appear absent, that blooms in the summer on an erect, several flowered inflorescence.
Synonyms *Habenaria brevifolia Greene 1881; Habenaria sparsiflora var. brevifolia (Greene) Correll 1943; Limnorchis brevifolia (Greene) Rydb. 1901; Limnorchis brevifolia f. alba (P.M.Br.) P.M.Br. 2009; Platanthera brevifolia f. alba P.M.Br. 2006; Platanthera sparsiflora var. brevifolia (Greene) Luer 1975
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
Bot. Gaz. 6: 218 Greene 1881 as Habenaria brevifolia
Bull. Torrey Bot. Club 28: 631 Rybd. 1901 as Limnorchis brevifolia
Bull. Torrey Bot. Club 28: 632 Rybd. 1901 as Limnorchis brevifolia drawing fide;
Studies in the Family Orchidaceae Vol 4: 105 Ames 1910 as Habenaria brevifolia drawing good;
Leafl. W. Bot. 3: 244 Correll 1943 as Habenaria sparsifolia var brevifolia
*Orchidee (Hamburg) 24: 97 Senghas 1973
Native Orchids U.S. & Canada excluding Florida: 240 Luer 1975 as P sparsiflora var brevifolia
Orquideas del Estado de Morelos ORQUÍDEA (MÉX.) VOLUMEN 16: 224 NÚMERO ÚNICO enero 2002 drawing/photo fide;
The Wild Orchids of North America north of Mexico P M Brown 2003 drawing/photo fide;
McAllen Int. Orchid Soc. J. 7(12): 8 P M Brown 2006 as P brevifolia f alba;
N. Amer. Native Orchid J. 15: 78 P M Brown S.L.Stewart & Gamarra 2009 as Limnorchis brevifolia f alba
Las Orquideas del Occidente de Mexico Vol 1: 241 Jorge Roberto González Tamayo y Lizbeth Hernández Hernández 2010 drawing fide;
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