Platanthera japonica (Thunb. ex A. Murray) Lindl. 1835

Plant and Flowers in situ Japan Photos by © Hisanori Takeuchi and his Orchids of the World Website

Common Name The Japanese Platanthera - In China She Chun Lan

Flower Size .15" [3 mm]

Found in China, Korea, Japan and the Ryukyu Islands in forests on grassy slopes nad along hillsides at elevations of 800 to 2500 meters as a medium sied, warm to cold growing terrestrial with an erect, glabrous stem carrying 3 to 6, elliptic to oblong, herbaceous, amplexcaul and basally clasping leaves that blooms in the spring on a terminal, racemose, 10 to 20 flowered inflorescence with narrowly lanceolate bracts that are much longer than the flowers

Synonyms *Orchis japonica Thunb. ex A. Murray 1784

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Orchids of Southern Ryukyu Islands Garay & Sweet 1974; Native Orchids of China in Colour Singchi, Zhanhuo and Yibo 1999 photo fide; Native Orchids of Shaanxi - Shaanxi Science & Technology Press 2007 photo fide; Orchids of Huanglong Perner, Tang Si-Yuan 2007 photos fide; Native Orchids From Gaoligongshan Mountains, China Xiaohua, Xiaodong and Xiaochun 2009 photo fide; A Field Guide to the Orchids of China Singchi, Zhongjian, Yibo, Xiaohua and Zhanhuo 2009 photo fide; Flora of China Vol 25 Zhengyi, Raven & Deyuan 2009; The Wild Orchids in Yunnan Xu Xiang Ye & Liu 2010 photos fide;

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