Platanthera clavigera Lindl. 1835
Photo by © Peter O'Byrne and The Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria Website
Photo by Bhutan Orchid Adventures Website
Drawing of Habenaria densa by King & Pantling and The Orchids of Sikkim-Himalaya Part 1 King & Pantling 1898
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Common Name The Club Carrying Platanthera - In China Zang Nan She Chun Lan
Flower Size .28 to .32" " [7 to 8 mm]
Found in China, western Himalayas, Eastern Himalayas, India, Nepal and Bhutan in open grassy clearings in juniper forests at elevations of 2800 to 4500 meters as a miniature to small sized, cold growing terrestrial with globose-ovoid tubers giving rise to an erect stem carrying 2 occasionally 3, basal, subopposite, linear-oblong to oblong-elliptic, subacute to acute, sessile leaves in the lower third and ebracteate above that blooms in the late spring and summer on an erect, 1.6 to 3.4" [4 to 8.5 cm] long, densely to subdensely many flowered inflorescence with small, ovate, subacute, floral bracts.
Synonyms Habenaria clavigera (Lindl.) Dandy 1930; Habenaria densa Wall. ex Lindl. 1835; Habenella clavigera (Lindl.) Szlach. & Kras-Lap. 2006; Habenella densa (Wall. ex Lindl.) Szlach. & Kras-Lap. 2006; Herminium clavigerum (Lindl.) X.H.Jin, Schuit., Raskoti & Lu Q.Huang 2015; Platanthera densa (Wall. ex Lindl.) Soó 1929; Platantheroides clavigera (Lindl.) Szlach 2004; Platantheroides densa (Wall. ex Lindl.) Szlach. 2004
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
* Gen. Sp. Orchid. Pl.: 289 Lindley 1835
Gen. Sp. Orchid. Pl.: 326 Lindley 1835 as Habenaria densa;
The Orchids of Sikkim-Himalaya Part 1 King & Pantling 1898 as Habenaria densa
The Orchids of Sikkim-Himalaya Part 1 King & Pantling 1898 as Habenaria densa drawing fide;
The Orchids of North-Western Himalaya Vol IX Part II Duthie 1906 as Habenaria densa;
Ann. Hist.-Nat. Mus. Natl. Hung. 26: 358 Soo 1929 as Platantheras densa nom. illeg.
J. Bot. 68: 246 Dandy 1930 as Habenaria clavigera;
Encyclopedia of Cultivated Orchids Hawkes 1965 as P densa;
Indian Orchids A Field Guide to Identification and Culture Vol 1 Pradhan 1976 as Habenaria clavigera drawing fide;
Orchids of Arunachal Pradesh Hegde 1984 as Habenaria clavigera;
Orchids of North West Himalaya Deva & Naithani 1986 as Habenaria clavigera drawing fide;
Orchids of Kumaun Himalayas Pangtey, Samant and Rawat 1991 as Habenaria clavigera;
The Orchids of Bhutan Pearce & Cribb 2002;
Richardiana 4: 104 Szlach 2004 as Platantheroides clavigera;
Richardiana 4: 106 Szlach 2004 as Platantheroides densa;
Richardiana 6: 34 Szlach. & Kras-Lap. 2006 as Habenella clavigera;
Richardiana 6: 35 Szlach. & Kras-Lap. 2006 as Habenella densa
Orchids of India A Glimpse Misra 2007;
Flora of China Vol 25: 112 Zhengyi, Raven & Deyuan 2009;
Flora of China Vol 25: 160 Illustrations Zhengyi, Raven & Deyuan 2010 drawing hmm;
LANKESTERIANA 15(1): 7—50. Jeewan Singh Jalal & J. Jayanthi 2015;
Atlas of Native Orchids of China Vol 1 Jin Xiaohua, Li Jianwu and Ye Deping 2019 photo fide
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