Platanthera curvata K.Y.Lang 1987

Plant and Flower in situ Photos by © Sue Kelly and the Biodiversity of the Hengduan Mountains Orchid Website

Common Name The Curved Platanthera - In China Gong Bei She Chun Lan

Flower Size .6" [1.5 cm]

Found in Tibet to Yunnan Province China in forests, scrub and grasslands on slopes at elevations of 1900 to 3930 meters as a small to just medium sized, cold growing terrestrial with a creeping, cylindric, stoloniferous rootstock giving rise to an erect to ascending stem with 1 to 2, tubular, basal sheaths and carrying 2, elliptic to obovate, acute to acuminate, basally clasping leaves that blooms in the summer on an erect, slender, 2.2 to 4.8" [5.5 to 12 cm] long, 4 to 10+ flowered inflorescence with 1 to 2, foliaceous bractsw and lanceoalte, acuminate to acute floral bracts.

Synonyms Habenaria platantheroides Tang & F.T.Wang 1936; Platanthera platantheroides K.Y.Lang 1989

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI Flora of China Vol 25 Zhengyi, Raven & Deyuan 2009; Flora of China Vol 25 Illustrations Zhengyi, Raven & Deyuan 2010 drawing ok

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